Espey, Jessica (2025) Shaping global territorial governance: tracing the emergence of the urban SDG. In, Cotella, Giancarlo and Rivolin, Umberto Janin (eds.) Handbook of Global Territorial Governance. Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 379-399. (doi:10.4337/9781035317288.00032).
Abstract
There is growing recognition of the importance of a place-based approach to policy and planning in international governance, as well as the central role of cities in determining planetary sustainability. The Paris Declaration and SDGs, agreed in 2015, both acknowledged the role of local governments in delivering sustainable development and the need to shine a spotlight on cities. Yet processes of international policy development remain exclusionary for local, regional, and city actors, often resulting in those concerned with local development having to adopt heterogeneous, undocumented processes of policy-influencing. This chapter attempts to map, analyse, and decode processes of policy influencing by urban stakeholders within the negotiations over the SDGs and specifically focuses on the urban goal, SDG 11. In doing so, it lays bare the incredibly messy, complex, and exclusionary world of international policy formulation, which urban stakeholders must navigate to have an impact on global urban policy frameworks.
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