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The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide a global agenda toward 2030 that need to be implemented at the local level to become effective. This chapter presents the Italian case study and describes how these goals are being integrated into the Sardinian Regional Sustainable Development Strategy (SRSvS). In particular, this chapter illustrates the methodology developed for SDGs localization at the neighborhood level, to support the implementation of the Regional Strategy. The main component of this methodology is an SDG-based evaluation framework for integrated sustainability assessment of urban and territorial transformations. The evaluation framework is designed to become a centerpiece in the institutionalization of sustainability assessment across the public administrations, and to promote sustainability through urban projects and policies. This work raises critical questions about the current practices and suggests how SDGs-oriented urban strategies and projects can offer a comprehensive a common framework of principles and criteria against which different interventions can be assessed and justified. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the potential more general relevance of such an approach, and some suggestions for future research and practice.
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The research project “Urban SOS.Lab,” within which the N.SDGs evaluation framework was developed, is carried out by the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Architecture of the University of Cagliari for the Autonomous Region of Sardinia within the program of development of the Regional Sustainable Development Strategy (SRSvS). The research was founded by the Italian Ministry of Ecological Transition (MITE ) for the period 2020–2022 within the call for proposals for the promotion of research projects to support the implementation of the National Strategy for Sustainable Development.
Coordination Group of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Architecture, University of Cagliari (Italy): Ivan Blečić, Italo Meloni, Valeria Saiu (Scientific Responsibles), Francesco Piras, Beatrice Scappini.
Coordination Group of the Sardinia2030. Regional Sustainable Development Strategy (SRSvS), Regione Autonoma della Sardegna (Italy): Directorate General of Environmental Defense (Direzione Generale della Difesa dell’Ambiente): Gianluca Cocco (General Director), Giovanni Satta, Filippo Arras, Emanuela Manca, Luisa Mulas, Stefano Aresti, Cristina Demuro. The drafting and implementation of the Regional Strategies for Sustainable Development were financed through the first and second collaboration agreement between Sardinia Region and the Ministry of Ecological Transition.
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Saiu, V., Blečić, I., Cocco, G., Meloni, I. (2022). Urban Sustainability and SDGs Implementation Between Regional Strategy and Local Practice: Case of Sardinia. In: Leal Filho, W., Dinis, M.A.P., Moggi, S., Price, E., Hope, A. (eds) SDGs in the European Region . Implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goals – Regional Perspectives. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91261-1_64-1
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