Quality Criteria to Evaluate Performance and Scope of 2030 Agenda in Metropolitan Areas: Case Study on Strategic Planning of Environmental Municipality Management
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2030 Agenda Strategic planning Quality Criteria
Date
2020-01-08Referencia bibliográfica
Poza-Vilches, M.F.; Gutiérrez-Pérez, J.; Pozo-Llorente, M.T. Quality Criteria to Evaluate Performance and Scope of 2030 Agenda in Metropolitan Areas: Case Study on Strategic Planning of Environmental Municipality Management. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2020, 17, 419. [doi:10.3390/ijerph17020419]
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Project: ‘Sustainability in Higher Education: Evaluation of the scope of the 2030 Agenda in curriculum innovation and teacher professional development in Andalusian Universities’. B-SEJ-424-UGR18. Principal researchers: José Gutiérrez-Pérez and María de Fátima Poza-Vilches.Résumé
The United Nations’ (UN) 2030 Agenda brings new governance challenges to municipal
environmental planning, both in large urban centres and in metropolitan peripheries. The
opportunities of the new framework of action proposed by the United Nations (UN) and its
integrative, global, and transversal nature constitute advances from the previous models of municipal
management based on the Local Agenda 21. This text provides evidence to apply quality criteria
and validated instruments of participatory evaluation. These instruments have been built on the
foundation of evaluative research, a scientific discipline that provides rigour and validity to those
decisions adopted at a municipal level. A case study focused on a metropolitan area serves as a field
of experimentation for this model of the modernization of environmental management structures at a
local level. Details of the instruments, agents, priority decision areas, methodologies, participation
processes, and quality criteria are provided, as well as an empirically validated model for participatory
municipal management based on action research processes and strategic planning that favours a
shared responsibility across all social groups in the decision-making process and in the development of
continuous improvement activities that are committed to sustainability. Finally, a critical comparison
of weaknesses and strengths is included in light of the evidence collected.