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Towards sustainable futures : the role of evaluation / edited by Ida Lindkvist, Per Øyvind Bastøe and Kim Forss.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Comparative policy evaluation ; 27
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sustainable Development Goals (Project)--Evaluation.
- Sustainable Development Goals (Project).
- Sustainable development--Evaluation.
- Sustainable development.
- Economic development projects--Evaluation.
- Economic development projects.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvii, 304 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.
- Biography/History:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Concept, background and purpose / Ida Lindkvist, Kim Forss, Per Øyvind Bastøe
- Can equity be sustained : and can evaluation find the answer? / Kim Forss
- Evaluation of sustainability in the presence of goal conflict / Ida Lindkvist
- Understanding and addressing sustainability in evaluation / Rob D. van den Berg
- Setting goals and missing them : can evaluations help us meet SDGs? / Saeed Parto
- Disaster risk management for sustainable development / Mathilde de Goër de Herve
- Evaluating sustainability through the lens of circular business models / Jens Andersson
- Credibility and utility of corporate sustainability reporting / Per Øyvind Bastøe and Paul Wade
- A classification algorithm to link official documents to sustainable development goals / Francesco Mazzeo Rinaldi, Giovanni Giuffrida, Salvo Nicotra and Flora Dispinseri
- Evaluation : a road to sustainable welfare / Kjeld Høgsbro and Olaf Rieper
- Sustainability, systemic change, and theory-based evaluation : lessons from the 'safe system' approach in road safety / Peter van der Knaap
- Why we should employ a social practice perspective when we evaluate sustainability / Tove Heggli Sagmo and Anita Haslie
- Evaluating social sustainability : concepts, approaches and how to apply these to evaluations / Alison Pollard
- 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
- Evaluating sustainability : a multidimensional approach / Tom Ling and Ananda S. Millard Tom Ling
- Conclusions : outlining the roles for evaluation / Ida Lindkvist, Kim Forss, Per Øyvind Bastøe.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 24, 2024).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Towards sustainable futures
- ISBN:
- 9781032714936
- 103271493X
- 9781003856610
- 1003856616
- 9781003856597
- 1003856594
- Publisher Number:
- 40032262351
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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