The Palgrave Handbook of International Communication and Sustainable Development (eBook)

The Palgrave Handbook of International Communication and Sustainable Development is a major resource for stakeholders interested in understanding the role of communication in achieving the UN'S Sustainable Development Goals. Bringing together theoretical and applied contributions from scholars in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia and North America, the handbook argues that communication is a key factor in achieving the global goals and suggests a review of the SDGs to consider its importance. Reflecting on the impact of COVID-19, it highlights the need for effective communication infrastructure and critically assesses the 2030 agenda and timeline. Including individual SDG and country case studies as well as integrated analysis, the chapters seek to enrich understanding of communication for development and propose crucial policy interventions. It is critical reading for researchers as well as policy makers and NGOs.   

Muhammad Jameel Yusha'u is the Managing Editor of 'Africa Policy Journal' at Harvard Kennedy School, USA. He is a development expert and the author of Regional Parallelism and Corruption Scandals in Nigeria (2018). An ex-BBC journalist, and previously Senior Lecturer in Media and Politics at Northumbria University, UK, he has taught global journalism and mass communications at the University of Sheffield, UK, and Bayero University, Nigeria.

Jan Servaes was UNESCO Chair in Communication for Sustainable Social Change. He has taught International Communication and Communication for Social Change in Australia, Belgium, China, Hong Kong, the United States, the Netherlands, and Thailand, in addition to several teaching stints at about 120 universities in 55 countries. Servaes is Editor-in-Chief of the Elsevier journal 'Telematics and Informatics: An Interdisciplinary Journal on the Social Impacts of New Technologies.' He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Handbook of Communication for Development and Social Change (2020).