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Reframing the sustainable development goals to achieve sustainable development in the Anthropocene-a systems approach

Lim, Michelle M. L. ; Søgaard Jørgensen, Peter ; Wyborn, Carina A.

Ecology and society, 2018-10, Vol.23 (3), p.22, Article art22 [同儕審閱期刊]

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    Reframing the sustainable development goals to achieve sustainable development in the Anthropocene-a systems approach
  • 著者: Lim, Michelle M. L. ; Søgaard Jørgensen, Peter ; Wyborn, Carina A.
  • 主題: Academic achievement ; Anthropocene ; Climate change ; Consumption ; Corporations ; Economic development ; Economic growth ; Governance ; Implementation ; Innovations ; Integration ; International law ; Intervention ; Life support systems ; Network analysis ; Production ; Sustainable development ; sustainable development goals ; Sustainable use ; systems approach
  • 所屬期刊: Ecology and society, 2018-10, Vol.23 (3), p.22, Article art22
  • 描述: Griggs et al. (2013) redefine sustainable development as “development that meets the needs of the present while safeguarding Earth’s life-support system, on which the welfare of current and future generations depend.” We recommend this as the end goal that the United Nations sustainable development goals (SDGs) should strive to achieve. Integration across the SDGs is less than what is required from a science perspective. Effective implementation of the SDGs will require States to attend to trade-offs and overlaps. We argue that continuous failure to address integration within the SDGs will jeopardize realization of this ultimate end goal. Therefore, we adopt a systems approach to identify gaps and connections across the goals and targets of the SDGs as well as leverage points for effective intervention. We triangulate across methods of critical analysis, conceptual modeling, and keyword network analysis to draw out seven “overarching directions” that could provide a prioritization framework to enhance efficient implementation of the SDGs. Our results identify main gaps as exclusion of key actors (e.g., corporations) and issues (e.g., intergenerational equity and population); inadequate reconciliation of economic growth with maintaining the Earth system; and deficient consideration of the relationship with international law. Conceptual mapping identifies education and innovation; governance and implementation; sustainable consumption and production; and addressing the key drivers of climate change as key leverage points. The keyword analysis highlights greater integration within the SDGs than what appears at face value. Keywords “access,” “women,” “resources,” and “finance” feature across the SDGs and provide further leverage points. Targeting these issues will facilitate realization of a high proportion of SDGs and correspondingly could have a disproportional impact on effective SDG implementation. We conclude that the success of the SDGs needs to be evaluated by the extent to which it contributes to human development while advancing protection of “planetary must-haves” for current and future generations.
  • 出版者: Ottawa: Resilience Alliance
  • 語言: 英文
  • 識別號: ISSN: 1708-3087
    EISSN: 1708-3087
    DOI: 10.5751/ES-10182-230322
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