The Incorporation of the 2030 Agenda in the Design of Local Policies for Social Transformation in Disadvantaged Urban Areas

Rocío Vela-Jiménez, Antonio Sianes, Rocío López-Montero and Antonio Delgado-Baena
Additional contact information
Rocío Vela-Jiménez: Research Institute on Policies for Social Transformation, Universidad Loyola Andalucía, 41704 Seville, Spain
Antonio Sianes: Research Institute on Policies for Social Transformation, Universidad Loyola Andalucía, 41704 Seville, Spain
Rocío López-Montero: Research Institute on Policies for Social Transformation, Universidad Loyola Andalucía, 41704 Seville, Spain
Antonio Delgado-Baena: Research Institute on Policies for Social Transformation, Universidad Loyola Andalucía, 41704 Seville, Spain

Land, 2022, vol. 11, issue 2, 1-25

Abstract: According to the United Nations, the current COVID-19 crisis is threatening decades of development gains. This situation is aggravated in disadvantaged urban areas where 25% of the world’s population lives. Such concentration has aggravated the multidimensional problem that requires an integrated policy approach. Internationally, this approach has materialized in the formulation of global policies such as the 2030 Agenda. However, many doubts remain about the extent to which global policy such as the 2030 Agenda is able to inspire the formulation of local policies from the multidimensional perspective proposed by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). To answer this question, in this contribution we rely on a comparative case study of two public policies aimed at promoting the social inclusion of the most vulnerable groups in the urban context: the “Andalusian Regional Strategy for Social Cohesion and Inclusion. Intervention in disadvantaged areas” (ERACIS) and the “Barcelona Strategy for Inclusion and Reduction of Social Inequalities 2017–2027”. The results show how the government sphere, the logic of intervention, and other aspects of policy design influence the incorporation of the principles of the 2030 Agenda in local policies, highlighting both risks and potentials of such policy transfer, crucial to the effective achievement of the SDGs.

Keywords: inclusive and sustainable urban development; public policy; social policy; policy transfer; design policy; multidimensionality approach; social exclusion; social transformation; disadvantaged urban areas; 2030 Agenda (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (4)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/11/2/197/pdf (application/pdf)
https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/11/2/197/ (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:gam:jlands:v:11:y:2022:i:2:p:197-:d:735209

Access Statistics for this article

Land is currently edited by Ms. Carol Ma

More articles in Land from MDPI
Bibliographic data for series maintained by MDPI Indexing Manager ().