This volume describes the thinking on sustainable development and a variety of initiatives across Europe, illustrating regional efforts to foster sustainable communities and ecological and social innovation. It contains various contributions which showcase examples of thinking, economic and social structures and in consumption and production patterns needed, to implement the SDGs.This book is part of the "100 papers to accelerate the implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals initiative".

Introduces initiatives from European countries to implement the SDGs

Hot and Cold Extreme Temperature Risk and Resilience in Baltic Sea Region: agricultural aspects.- Optimal Control Approaches to Sustainability under Uncertainty.- Impact of Recreants on the Destruction of Aeolian Complexes: Vistula (Baltic) Spit, Kaliningrad Region.- Conservation and Restoration of Coastal Lagoons in the Northern Baltic Sea.- SDG 8, Decent Work and Post-Covid Recovery: Policy Implications, Challenges and Opportunities in the UK.- Slowing Down the Achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals and COVID-19 Pandemic.- Collateral Damage: War in Ukraine Endangers Food Security in Africa.- Urban Sustainability and SDGs Implementation between Regional Strategy and Local Practice: Case of Sardinia.- Peripheral Euro-Regions Job Challenges: Administra.- Duty of Legal Eco-Innovation for Sustainability.- Decolonising Regional Perspectives for Implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goals.- Passivhaus Standard as a Social Housing Model in the UK: Barriers and Opportunities.-Multi-Level Governance of Sustainability Transition in the European Union.- etc.