Citizens’ Social Participation to Implement Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): A Literature Review

Yasutaka Ozaki and Rajib Shaw ()
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Yasutaka Ozaki: Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University, Fujisawa 252-0882, Japan
Rajib Shaw: Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University, Fujisawa 252-0882, Japan

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 21, 1-18

Abstract: SDGs emphasize the importance of multi-stakeholder processes, particularly in promoting citizen-level participation. This paper aims to understand the current status of citizens’ social participation and the challenges in promoting them in order to achieve SDGs and create a resilient society. To achieve this objective, the literature review method is used. The literature was obtained from source databases related to recent literature on citizens’ participation with regard to SDGs. In the discussion and conclusion, this paper examines the possibility that one of the vital issues in promoting social participation of citizens could be information sharing. It also describes the cycle which citizens themselves become the main actors in generating information to promote citizen participation, and the information generated through this process leads further citizen participation. These results will be used as the basis for the following action research process. This paper is positioned as introductory in nature, and the importance of information sharing will be examined more closely in future studies.

Keywords: SDGs; sustainable development; citizen; participation; information; multi-stakeholder process; citizen science (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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