Definition
Efforts to achieve a just and sustainable future must recognize the rights, dignity, and capabilities of the whole world’s population and acknowledge gender equity. To be effective, policy actions for sustainability must redress the disproportionate impact on women and girls of economic, social, and environmental shocks and changes. Women’s knowledge, agency, and collective action have the potential to improve resource productivity, to enhance ecosystem conservation and sustainable use of natural resources, and to create more sustainable, low-carbon food, energy, water, and health systems.
Introduction
The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and the 169 targets (United Nations 2015b), which constitute Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development, also called Transforming Our World, allow us to understand in a real way a concrete project of sustainable development. The objectives are integrated and blend, in a balanced way, the three dimensions of sustainable development:...
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The authors would like to thank São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP, Brazil) for financial support to the research that lead to this entry (FAPESP n. 2019/08044-3) and to National Council for Scientific and Technological Development – CNPq/Brazil for the fellowship granted to the first author.
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da Cal Seixas, S.R., de Moraes Hoefel, J.L. (2020). Human Rights and Gender Equity: Building Sustainable Development. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A., Brandli, L., Özuyar, P., Wall, T. (eds) Gender Equality. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70060-1_60-1
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