Anita Breuer is a senior researcher at the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), leading the inter-disciplinary research project "Implementing the 2030 Agenda: Integrating Growth, Environment, Equality and Governance". Her primary research interests involve sustainability governance, democracy promotion, accountability and participatory politics, as well as the impact of digitalization on political behavior and collective action.

Daniele Malerba is a senior researcher at the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) in the inter-disciplinary research project focused on the implementation of the 2030 Agenda. His research focuses on just transitions, socio-ecological transitions and how to address the distributional implications of climate policies with the use of social protection.

Srinivasa Srigiri is a senior researcher within the Research Programme on Environmental Governance at the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS). His primary research interests involve governance of natural resources, sustainability transformations in rural and agricultural sectors, strategies for climate adaptation at sub-national and local levels, and the water-energy-food nexus.

Pooja Balasubramanian is a researcher at the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), part of an inter-disciplinary research project on the implementation of the 2030 Agenda. She focuses on the interlinkages between poverty, inequality and growth.

Table of Contents Chapter 1: Governing the Interlinkages between the SDGs: Approaches, Opportunities and Challenges Part I: Setting the scene: the state of the art on SDG interlinkages research Chapter 2: Scientific Approaches to SDG Interactions Analyses - The State of Play Chapter 3: The role of good governance in reducing poverty and inequality: Evidence from a scoping review of interlinkages between SDGs 16, 10 and 1 Part II: Institutional pre-conditions for increasing policy coherence in the implementation for the 2030 Agenda Chapter 4: Governance mechanisms for coherent and effective implementation of the 2030 Agenda: A cross-national comparison of government SDG bodies Chapter 5: A metagovernance approach to multilevel governance and vertical coordination for the SDGs Part III: Governance mechanisms to address Interlinkages, Trade-offs and Synergies: Merits and deficiencies Chapter 6: Trade-offs and SDG politics in South American agrifood governance: the risks from cherry-picking Chapter 7: Governance of the water-land-food nexus for integrated achievement of the 2030 Agenda: the case of lower Awash River basin, Ethiopia Chapter 8: Implementing the 2030 Agenda under resource scarcity - The case of WEF nexus governance in Azraq / Jordan Chapter 9: To grow or not to grow? Revisiting economic growth as a Sustainable Development Goal in light of the degrowth debate Chapter 10: Gender and Education Part IV: "Tools", policy mixes and governance mechanisms (solution oriented) Chapter 11: Modelling the interaction between climate mitigation and income inequality: the use of Integrated Assessment Models and the case of India Chapter 12: Poverty, Inequality and growth: East Asian experience Chapter 13: A decision-making tool for systems thinking in SDG implementation: Experiences from Sweden's Voluntary National Review 2021 Part V: Conclusions Chapter 14: Conclusions Index