Policy Capacity, Design and the Sustainable Development Goals

Andrea Lippi is Professor of Political Science at the University of Florence and Coordinator of the Department of Public Policy and Governance at the National School of Administration (SNA), Italy. Theodore N. Tsekos is Professor of Public Administration in the Department of Business and Public Administration at the University of Peloponnese, Greece.

Chapter 1. Introduction — Governing Sustainable Development from Theory to Practice: Wicked Problems, Expected Capacities and Design in Uncertain Environments; Andrea Lippi and Theodore N. Tsekos

PART A. Cases of Wickedness among SDGs. The Wicked Nature of Sustainable Policymaking

Chapter 2. Framing Child Poverty in Finland as a ‘Wicked Problem'; Christopher J. Smith, Petri Virtanen, Aapo Hiilamo, and Tiina Ristikari

Chapter 3. “Deep Rock is More Stable than Society”: The Siting of Repositories for High-Level Nuclear Waste in Italy, Germany and France; Giulio Citroni

Chapter 4. Gas Flaring Reduction in Iran: A Super-Wicked Policy Problem on the Way to Sustainability; Javad Keypour

Chapter 5. State Capacity and Wicked Problems: Examining the Agri-Environmental Topic Through Media Framing and the Legislative Agenda in Brazil; María Alejandra Costa and Éric Montpetit

Chapter 6. Organizing Wicked Policy Fields: A Strategic Framework for Capacity-Building in Cross-Border Transport Megaprojects; Giovanni Esposito and Andrea Terlizzi

Chapter 7. Wicked Nature of Sustainability Problems in Latvia; Iveta Reinholde, Inese Abolina, and Ilze Auliciema

PART B. Institutional Tools to Steer Wicked Policies in Sustainable Development

Chapter 8. Jurisdictional Approaches to Managing Wicked Problems: The Contribution of the PROAmazonia Program to Tackling Deforestation in Ecuador; Paul Cisneros, Kate Macdonald, and Cristhian Parrado

Chapter 9. Old Institutions Dealing with the Challenge of Sustainability: Water Planning in Spanish Inter-Regional Basins as a Wicked Problem; Alberto de la Peña Varona and Jaione Mondragón

Chapter 10. From Wicked Problems to the Wickedisation of Solutions: The Case of the French Citizens Convention for Climate; Magdalena Potz, Solange Hernandez, and Sarah Serval

Chapter 11. The Wicked Future of Cities: Localising Sustainable Development in the Case of the Metropolitan City of Florence; Edoardo Amato, Daniela Bernaschi, and Maria Camilla Fraudatario

Chapter 12. Wicked Problems and Policy Coherence in Global Britain: Lessons Learnt from the UK Context on Achieving the SDGs; Ileana Daniela Serban

Chapter 13. Dealing with Policy Nexuses Through Policy Integration: Governance Strategies and the Policy Capacities Needed to Meet the UN Sustainable Development Goals; Kidjie Saguin and Michael Howlett 

Chapter 14. Conclusions — Taking seriously Complexity, Wickedness and Capacity for Sustainable Development Policymaking; Andrea Lippi and Theodore N. Tsekos