Routledge Handbook on the un and Development

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- About the contributors -- Preface and acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction: development, the largest of four UN functions -- Some crucial considerations -- About this book -- NOTES -- Part I: Realizing the SDGs: opportunities and challenges -- Chapter 1: The UN development system: origins, structure, status -- The first new organizations -- Constant growth -- The UN approach to "development" -- Human development: an integrating framework -- UN goals and global conferences -- UN operations -- The UN's development impact -- Conclusion -- NOTES -- ADDITIONAL READING -- Chapter 2: The UN and development: objectives and governance -- The objectives of international development cooperation -- From the MDGs to the SDGs -- The governance of global development cooperation -- Conclusion: looking to the future -- NOTES -- ADDITIONAL READING -- Chapter 3: Emerging powers, a declining West, and multilateralism -- How the West weakens multilateralism -- Migration: why weaken multilateralism now? -- Can the Global South, especially Asia, save multilateralism? -- Conclusion -- NOTES -- ADDITIONAL READING -- Chapter 4: Environment and development in the UN -- Global environmental conferences -- Global environmental conventions: ozone and climate -- Compliance and implementation: the role of the three UNs -- The coherence challenge -- Conclusion -- NOTES -- ADDITIONAL READING -- Chapter 5: Gender equality and the United Nations -- UN history: the early years -- World conferences on women: advances and backlash -- Contributions by the UN system -- Today: UN Women -- Change but not transformation -- Conclusion -- NOTES -- ADDITIONAL READING -- Chapter 6: Human rights and sustainable development: together at last?.