ABSTRACT

This paper examines the implementation of the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015, the first and only piece of legislation to codify the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals in law. The paper provides empirical analysis of the implementation of this legislation based on 16 semi-structured interviews with stakeholders across Wales. The analysis explores whether the Act can deliver spatial justice in Wales through its novel and place-based approach to sustainable development. We examine how the Act has been implemented at different spatial scales – the local, the regional and the national – and how the differences in the way it is interpreted by actors at these different levels influences the extent to which spatial justice is realised in its implementation.

摘要

本文探讨了 2015 年《后代福祉（威尔士）法案》的实施情况，这是第一部也是唯一一部将联合国可持续发展目标编入法律的立法。本文基于对威尔士各利益相关者的 16 次半结构化访谈，对该立法的实施情况进行了实证分析。该分析探讨了该法案是否可以通过其新颖的、基于地方的可持续发展方法在威尔士实现空间正义。我们研究该法案是如何在不同空间尺度（地方、区域和国家）实施的，以及这些不同层面的行为者解释方式的差异如何影响其实施过程中实现空间正义的程度。