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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">RFDS</journal-id>
      <journal-title-group>
        <journal-title>Regional Formation and Development Studies</journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="epub">2029-9370</issn>
      <issn pub-type="ppub">2029-9370</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>KU</publisher-name>
      </publisher>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">09_MARIA_LIDON</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.15181/rfds.v34i2.2248</article-id>
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          <subject>Article</subject>
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      <title-group>
        <article-title>Spanish Sustainable Development through Administrative Law</article-title>
      </title-group>
      <contrib-group>
        <contrib contrib-type="Author">
          <name>
            <surname>Ortiz</surname>
            <given-names>María Lidón Lara</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:href="mailto:mlara@uji.es">mlara@uji.es</email>
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        <aff id="j_RFDS_aff_000">Universitat Jaume I</aff>
      </contrib-group>
      <volume>34</volume>
      <issue>2</issue>
      <fpage>106</fpage>
      <lpage>118</lpage>
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        <p>This paper contains an assessment of the accomplishment of the Sustainable Development Goals in Spain through administrative</p>
        <p>law, pointing out the main regulations, and the most outstanding actions taken through public programmes and plans proficient to</p>
        <p>have a great impact on each and every one of the 17 SDGs. The research has been carried out through an initial theoretical study that</p>
        <p>involves a review of the main literature on the SDGs, Spanish law, and the study of case law related to some SDGs. After exposing</p>
        <p>the main theoretical questions of each SDG, a survey was carried out to quantitatively measure the degree of compliance with the</p>
        <p>SDGs through administrative regulation, and to analyse the possibilities for further regulatory development. The results are different</p>
        <p>in relation to each SDG, as the study shows. However, it can be anticipated that the average degree of compliance with the set of</p>
        <p>SDGs is medium-high, but more measures can be promoted to reach full compliance.</p>
      </abstract>
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        <label>Keywords</label>
        <kwd>sustainable development</kwd>
        <kwd>administrative law</kwd>
        <kwd>regions</kwd>
        <kwd>public administrations</kwd>
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        <label>JEL CODES</label>
        <kwd>K23</kwd>
        <kwd>I38</kwd>
        <kwd>I23</kwd>
        <kwd>I25</kwd>
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