Promoting the Sustainable Development Goals in North American Cities: Case Studies & Best Practices

Chapter1: Introduction: Localizing SDG Goals and empowering cities and communities in North America for sustainability.- SectionI: City & Regional Localization of SDGs.- Chapter2: Localizing the SGDs in Baltimore: Challenges and Opportunities of the USA Sustainable Cities Initiative.- Chapter3: Los Angeles: Measuring Its Ambition to Achieve the SDGs.- Chapter4: The Idea of Sustainability and the Houston Region.- SectionII: Programs and Tools to support the implementation of the SDGs.- Chapter5: Making the SDGs Relevant for Cities: Using the Community Capital Tool in British Columbia.- Chapter6: How Local Communities Can Align with United Nations Sustainable Development Goals: A Santa Cruz County Case Study.- SectionIII: Mobilizing Local SDG efforts across North America.- Chapter7: Top-down and Bottom-Up Approaches to the SDG-Monitoring Challenge.- Chapter8: Data for Good for All - Enabling All Communities to Track Progress Towards SDG Implementation.- SectionIV: Developing new methods and data to localize SDGs.- Chapter9: Helping the Neighborhood Create Indicators for Sustainable Housing Planning, Sustainable Development Goal #11 Sustainable Cities & Communities.- Chapter10: How the Youth Social Enterprise (YSE) Model Supports the Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goal #8 Economic Growth and Decent Work in American Cities.- SectionV: Goals, Targets and Indicators for Localizing SDGs in the US.- Chapter11: Proposed Local SDG Indicators for US Cities and Communities