Rethinking Governance, Sustainable Development, and Public Financial Administration

Public financial administration plays a central role in shaping how governments plan, allocate, and manage resources to achieve societal goals. In an era marked by climate change, environmental degradation, fiscal pressure, and growing social inequality, traditional approaches to public finance are increasingly insufficient to respond to complex sustainability challenges. Governments are now required to move beyond compliance-driven financial management toward systems that actively support climate resilience, sustainable development, and long-term public value creation. Against this backdrop, it is essential to explore how public financial administration can be reimagined to align governance, budgeting, and financing decisions with sustainability objectives. Rethinking Governance, Sustainable Development, and Public Financial Administration advances the understanding of how public financial administration can be re-oriented to support sustainability, climate resilience, and inclusive development. It brings together interdisciplinary perspectives to examine emerging approaches within a global context. Covering topics such as climate finance, green economic transition, and social accountability, this book is an excellent resource for academicians, researchers, postgraduate students, policymakers, public sector practitioners, international development institutions, professionals, training institutions, NGOs, policy analysts, and more.