Financial Crises, Poverty and Environmental Sustainability: Challenges in the Context of the SDGs and Covid-19 Recovery

Dr. Andreas Antoniades is a Senior Lecturer in Global Political Economy, University of Sussex, Principal Investigator of the FCES unit of the ‘Sussex Sustainability Research Programme (SSRP)’, and Convenor of the Global Debt Dynamics Initiative. He was previously Director of the Centre for Global Political Economy at Sussex, and the Athens Centre for International Political Economy at Panteion University in Greece.  Dr. Alexander Antonarakis is a Senior Lecturer in Global Change Ecology, University of Sussex, and co-Principal Investigator of the FCES unit of the ‘Sussex Sustainability Research Programme (SSRP)’. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, USA.   Dr. Isabell Kempf is Head of Bonn Office & Senior Research Coordinator, UNRISD. She leads the UNRISD Bonn Programme on Integrating Knowledge and Capacity Development for the SDGs. Previously, she was co-Director of the UNDP-UNEP Poverty-Environment Action based at UNEP in Nairobi. She has 26 years of experience working with the UN, including UNESCO, the Economic Commission for Latin American and the Caribbean, and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.

• Chapter1. The Crises – Poverty – Sustainability Nexus in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals and Covid-19.- Chapter2. Finance for the common good: Re-thinking the relationship between finance, poverty and sustainability.- Chapter3. Financial Crises, Environment and Transition.- Chapter4. From crisis to crisis: Conundrums of Caribbean existence in the Global Political Economy.- Chapter5. Sustainable Water Resource Development in the Lower Mekong Basin: synergies and trade-offs across borders and sectors.- Chapter6. Government Borrowing, Infrastructure and Human Development in Africa: A Panel Threshold Approach.- Chapter7. Lives, Livelihoods and Environment: The Challenge of Sustainable Development Goals in India.- Chapter8. The Nexus of Structural Adjustment, Economic Growth and Sustainability: The Case Study of Ethiopia.- Chapter9. Layered crises preventing poverty reduction: an analysis of Zambian poverty dynamics and policy implications. Chapter10. Resilience of small-scale fisheries to COVID-19: a case study from North Bali, Indonesia.- Chapter11. Challenges of targeting poor and vulnerable groups to reduce climate change vulnerability: The case of a Water and Sanitation project in Kampong Svay District, Cambodia.- Chapter12. Why recent crises and SDG implementation demand a new eco-social contract.