Tackling sustainable development goals through new space

Achieving the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) constitutes a formidable challenge. Existing solutions may be insufficient to respond to the scale and scope of the endeavour. The 17 SDGs are not discrete but interconnected, sustained by 169 targets. Their cross-level effects require the...

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Main Authors: Stewart R. Clegg, Miguel Pina e Cunha, Aníbal López, Emir Sirage, Arménio Rego
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Published: Elsevier 2024-12-01
Series:Project Leadership and Society
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666721523000285
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Emir Sirage
Arménio Rego
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description Achieving the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) constitutes a formidable challenge. Existing solutions may be insufficient to respond to the scale and scope of the endeavour. The 17 SDGs are not discrete but interconnected, sustained by 169 targets. Their cross-level effects require the adoption of a panarchical view of data. New Space projects, still unfamiliar to many managers and organizations, provide such data related to grand challenges capable of addressing the paradoxes that arise from the interaction of a system of systems of multiple scales of spatiality, temporality and social organization. To address these requires project managing developing capabilities that can connect everyday interventions in terrestrial economy and society with high level data findings from Geospatial Information Systems. We contribute to the SDG debate through the articulation of three streams of literature that may radically revise the way wicked problems are addressed: panarchy, paradox, and New Space.
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spelling doaj-art-3f6b352ca5814817a72810e99af876202025-08-20T02:37:42ZengElsevierProject Leadership and Society2666-72152024-12-01510010710.1016/j.plas.2023.100107Tackling sustainable development goals through new spaceStewart R. Clegg0Miguel Pina e Cunha1Aníbal López2Emir Sirage3Arménio Rego4The University of Sydney, School of Project Management and John Grill Institute for Project Leadership, 21 Ross St Forest Lodge, NSW, 2037, Australia; Corresponding author.New University of Lisbon Nova School of Business and Economics, R. da Holanda 1, 2775-405, Carcavelos, PortugalNew University of Lisbon Nova School of Business and Economics Library, R. da Holanda 1, 2775-405, Carcavelos, Portugal; Lisboa University – ISEG, Lisbon School of Economics and Management, Management Department, ADVANCE/CSG, PortugalAIR Centre, Canada de Belém sn, 9700-702, Terra Chã, PortugalUniversidade Católica Portuguesa, Católica Porto Business School, Portugal; Business Research Unit, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), Lisboa, PortugalAchieving the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) constitutes a formidable challenge. Existing solutions may be insufficient to respond to the scale and scope of the endeavour. The 17 SDGs are not discrete but interconnected, sustained by 169 targets. Their cross-level effects require the adoption of a panarchical view of data. New Space projects, still unfamiliar to many managers and organizations, provide such data related to grand challenges capable of addressing the paradoxes that arise from the interaction of a system of systems of multiple scales of spatiality, temporality and social organization. To address these requires project managing developing capabilities that can connect everyday interventions in terrestrial economy and society with high level data findings from Geospatial Information Systems. We contribute to the SDG debate through the articulation of three streams of literature that may radically revise the way wicked problems are addressed: panarchy, paradox, and New Space.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666721523000285New spaceSustainable development goalsParadox theoryPanarchySuper projects
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Miguel Pina e Cunha
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Emir Sirage
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New space
Sustainable development goals
Paradox theory
Panarchy
Super projects
title Tackling sustainable development goals through new space
title_full Tackling sustainable development goals through new space
title_fullStr Tackling sustainable development goals through new space
title_full_unstemmed Tackling sustainable development goals through new space
title_short Tackling sustainable development goals through new space
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topic New space
Sustainable development goals
Paradox theory
Panarchy
Super projects
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