Towards Sustainable Futures

The Role of Evaluation
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-72287-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Comparative Policy Evaluation

Towards Sustainable Futures serves as a guide to better understand what roles evaluation can play in sustainability.

Rather than proposing a single definition of sustainability or methodological approach, this book gives us the tools to improve the quality and relevance of evaluation of sustainability. Divided into two parts, the first part introduces the reader to key debates and challenges related to evaluation of sustainability. Part Two provides examples of methods and applications.

By combining a stellar line up of specialists, theorists, and practitioners in the field of development evaluation with expert, accessible and engaged analysis of key issues, Towards Sustainable Futures is a must-read source for re-tooling and re-focussing evaluation towards the green transition imperative. It should be essential reading for scholars and practitioners of evaluation.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lindkvist, Ida Kristine

Bastøe, Per Øyvind

Forss, Kim

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword
Oscar A. Garcia

1. Concept, Background and Purpose
Ida Lindkvist, Kim Forss, Per Øyvind Bastøe

Part 1: From Projects to Systems and Politics
2. Can Equity be Sustained – and Can Evaluation find the Answer?
Kim Forss

3. Evaluation of Sustainability in the Presence of Goal Conflict
Ida Lindkvist

4. Understanding and Addressing Sustainability in Evaluation
Rob D. van den Berg

5. Setting Goals and Missing Them: Can Evaluations Help Us Meet SDGs?
Saeed Parto

6. Disaster Risk Management for Sustainable Development
Mathilde de Goër de Herve

Part 2: Methods and Applications
7. Evaluating Sustainability through the lens of Circular Business Models
Jens Andersson

8. Credibility and Utility of Corporate Sustainability Reporting
Per Øyvind Bastøe and Paul Wade

9. A Classification Algorithm to Link Official Documents to Sustainable Development Goals
Francesco Mazzeo Rinaldi, Giovanni Giuffrida, Salvo Nicotra and Flora Dispinseri

10. Evaluation: A Road to Sustainable Welfare
Kjeld Høgsbro and Olaf Rieper

11. Sustainability, Systemic Change, and Theory-Based Evaluation: Lessons from the ‘Safe System’ Approach in Road Safety
Peter van der Knaap

12. Why we Should Employ a Social Practice Perspective when we Evaluate Sustainability
Tove Heggli Sagmo and Anita Haslie

13. Evaluating Social Sustainability: Concepts, Approaches and How to Apply these to Evaluations
Alison Pollard

14. Re-imagining the Role of Evaluation in Planning for Sustainability of Gender Equity Interventions
Sanjeev Sridharan, Debra Torok, Abhijit Das, Satish Singh, Amanda Pereira, Rachael Gibson, and April Nakaima

15. Evaluating Sustainability – A Multidimensional Approach
Tom Ling and Ananda S. Millard Tom Ling

Part 3: Conclusion
16. Conclusions – Outlining the roles for evaluation
Ida Lindkvist, Kim Forss and Per Øyvind Bastøe

Über Autor(innen)

Per Bastøe is the Evaluation Director at Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD) and the chair of the OECD/DAC Evaluation Network. He has broad experience from international development and evaluation and has previously held senior positions in other parts of the Norwegian government administration, in the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank. He is a member of the International Evaluation Research Group and has published several books and articles on development policy, evaluation, and organizational change.

Kim Forss holds a PhD from the Stockholm School of Economics. His research has concerned comparative studies of evaluation, the design of inquiring systems and organizational learning, utilization of results, as well as process use of evaluation. He works as an independent researcher out of his firm Andante - tools for thinking AB.

Ida Lindkvist is Senior Advisor at the Evaluation Department in the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD). She holds a PhD in economics from the University of Bergen and her research interest includes the political economy of evaluation and the practice of results based management and results-based financing in aid.