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Reduced Inequalities

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Editors:
  1. Walter Leal Filho

    1. European School of Sustainability, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Germany

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  2. Anabela Marisa Azul

    1. Center for Neuroscience & Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

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  3. Luciana Brandli

    1. Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo University Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo, Brazil

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  4. Amanda Lange Salvia

    1. HAW Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

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  5. Pinar Gökcin Özuyar

    1. Istinye University, Istanbul, Türkiye

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  6. Tony Wall

    1. Liverpool Business School, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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  • Fosters knowledge to support the UN Sustainable Development Goal to reduce inequality within and among countries
  • Comprehensively describes research, projects and practical action
  • Provides government agencies, education institutions and non-governmental agencies with a sound basis to promote sustainability efforts
  • Covers many countries, very international
  • Fills a market need, being the world´s most comprehensive publication on the topic

Part of the book series: Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (ENUNSDG)

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Table of contents (89 entries)

  1. Access to Higher Education

    • Vuokko Kohtamäki, Emmi Nicola Kaila

  2. Accessibility as a Precondition for Equality for Persons with Disabilities

    • Mario Spiezio, Maria De Freitas Martinho

  3. Addressing Inequality through an Integral Design Approach for Sustainable Development in Rural Communities

    • Gayani Karunasena, Richard Tucker, Susan Ang

  4. Ageism: Conceptualizing and Contrasting Age-Related Discrimination

    • Lucia Cicero

  5. Body Image Related Discrimination

    • Tiago Horta Reis da Silva, Eduarda Carina Pereira Rodrigues

  6. Contribution of Fair Trade in Sustainable Development

    • Md Nazmus Sadekin, Most Asikha Aktar, Md Mahmudul Alam

  7. Cultural Diversity and Implications in Social Environment

    • Lucas Fagundes Veiga Ribeiro, João Vitor Junqueira Silva

  8. Cultural Inequality and Sustainable Development

    • Most. Asikha Aktar, Md. Mahmudul Alam

  9. Development and Equality: UN’s Effort with Least Developed Countries (LDC)

    • Rafael Gustavo de Lima, Samara da Silva Neiva

  10. Digital Divide: From a Peripheral to a Core Issue for all SDGs

    • Violet B. Valdez, Samantha P. Javier

  11. Dimensions and Causes of Systemic Oppression

    • Susanne Liedauer

  12. Diminishing Inequality Through Coaching in Education

    • Rachel Welton, Tessy Onaji, Rob Compton

  13. Discrimination: Concept, Types, Impact, and Remedies

    • Dunia Prince Zongwe

  14. Economic Inequality: Measures and Causes

    • Virendra Kamalvanshi, Saket Kushwaha

  15. Economic Policy to Reduce Inequality

    • Abigail N. Martin

  16. Effects of Trade Barriers on Development and Growth

    • Rosa Maria Fernandez

  17. Empowerment of Civil Society

    • Nasrin Jahan Jinia, Mohammed Asaduzzaman, Juha Vartola

  18. Enhancing Collaboration Between Societal Stakeholders for Reduced Inequalities

    • Martina M. Keitsch

  19. Equal Resilience for Global Risks: Mitigating Social, Economic, and Environmental Inequalities

    • Maria Tangwa Soondaha Amulungu

  20. Equality, Nondiscrimination, and Sustainable Development of Persons with Disabilities

    • Elizabeth Lockwood, Orsolya Bartha
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About this book

The problems related to the process of industrialisation such as biodiversity depletion, climate change and a worsening of health and living conditions, especially but not only in developing countries, intensify. Therefore, there is an increasing need to search for integrated solutions to make development more sustainable. The United Nations has acknowledged the problem and approved the “2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”. On 1st January 2016, the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the Agenda officially came into force. These goals cover the three dimensions of sustainable development: economic growth, social inclusion and environmental protection.  
The Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals comprehensively addresses the SDGs in an integrated way. The Encyclopedia encompasses 17 volumes, each one devoted to one of the 17 SDGs. This volume addresses SDG 10, namely "Reduce inequality within and among countries" but also includes inequalitiesin income as well as those based on age, sex, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion or economic or other status within a country. The Goal also addresses inequalities among countries, including those related to representation, migration and development assistance. This volume contains the description of a range of terms, which allow a better understanding and foster knowledge about it.

Concretely, the identified targets are:

  • Progressively achieve and sustain income growth of the bottom 40 per cent of the population at a rate higher than the national average
  • Empower and promote the social, economic and political inclusion of all, irrespective of age, sex, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion or economic or other status
  • Ensure equal opportunity and reduce inequalities of outcome, including by eliminating discriminatory laws, policies and practices and promoting appropriate legislation, policies and action in this regard
  • Adopt policies, especially fiscal, wage and social protection policies, and progressively achieve greater equality
  • Improve the regulation and monitoring of global financial markets and institutions and strengthen the implementation of such regulations
  • Ensure enhanced representation and voice for developing countries in decision-making in global international economic and financial institutions in order to deliver more effective, credible, accountable and legitimate institutions
  • Facilitate orderly, safe, regular and responsible migration and mobility of people, including through the implementation of planned and well-managed migration policies
  • Implement the principle of special and differential treatment for developing countries, in particular least developed countries, in accordance with World Trade Organization agreements
  • Encourage official development assistance and financial flows, including foreign direct investment, to states where the need is greatest, in particular least developed countries, African countries, small island developing states and landlocked developing countries, in accordance with their national plans and programmes
  • Reduce to less than 3 per cent the transaction costs of migrant remittances and eliminate remittance corridors with costs higher than 5 per cent

Editors and Affiliations

  • European School of Sustainability, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Germany

    Walter Leal Filho

  • Center for Neuroscience & Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Anabela Marisa Azul

  • Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo University Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo, Brazil

    Luciana Brandli

  • HAW Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Amanda Lange Salvia

  • Istinye University, Istanbul, Türkiye

    Pinar Gökcin Özuyar

  • Liverpool Business School, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, United Kingdom

    Tony Wall

About the editors

Walter Leal Filho (BSc, PhD, DSc, DPhil, DEd, DL, DLitt) is a Senior Professor and Head of the Research and Transfer Centre "Sustainable Development and Climate Change Management” at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences in Germany, and Chair of Environment and Technology at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. He is the initiator of the Word Sustainable Development Symposia (WSSD-U) series, and chairs the Inter-University Sustainable Development Research Programme. Professor Leal Filho has written, co-written, edited or co-edited more than 400 publications, including books, book chapters and papers in refereed journals.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Reduced Inequalities

  • Editors: Walter Leal Filho, Anabela Marisa Azul, Luciana Brandli, Amanda Lange Salvia, Pinar Gökcin Özuyar, Tony Wall

  • Series Title: Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71060-0

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Springer Reference Earth and Environm. Science, Reference Module Physical and Materials Science, Reference Module Earth and Environmental Sciences

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-71060-0Due: 14 October 2023

  • Series ISSN: 2523-7403

  • Series E-ISSN: 2523-7411

  • Topics: Sustainable Development, Migration

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