Aiding ocean development planning with SDG relationships in Small Island Developing States

Singh, Gerald G.; Oduber, Marck; Cisneros‐Montemayor, Andrés M.; Ridderstaat, Jorge

doi:10.1038/s41893-021-00698-3

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“…Identifying and exploring interlinkages is thus vital for understanding how pursuing specific SDGs can affect others and such assessments have been conducted for the oceans (Singh et al, 2018), energy systems (Nerini et al, 2018), eliminating hunger (Rasul, 2016;ICSU, 2017), increasing human health (Bekker et al, 2018), and more general SDG areas of interest (Pradhan et al, 2017). Importantly, however, general knowledge on linkages is not enough to guide a transition to sustainability without deeper information on the scale of change needed to achieve particular or multiple targets (Singh et al, 2021).…”

Section: Aligning Governance In Land-sea Interface For Sdgsmentioning

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“…Aruba's coastal development to date has led to marine pollution problems as well as coastal habitat loss, such as through mangrove removal (Oduber et al, 2015). Though marine tourism has such high economic value, it is not necessarily sustainable and it does not focus on a healthy marine ecosystem but rather having warm, clean, sand beaches (Singh et al, 2021). Aruban institutions responsible for managing the land-sea interface within Aruba operate in a siloed fashion, and initiatives from some may counteract the goals of others (Singh et al, 2021).…”

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“…Frameworks to help structure governance systems to achieve sustainability initiatives have been developed in political science as a planning and research framework for transitioning from current governance systems to integrated policy systems in order to achieve sustainable development objectives (Kemp et al, 2007;Loorbach, 2007;Rotmans and Loorbach, 2009;Loorbach, 2010;Broman and Robèrt, 2017). However, frameworks for structuring governance systems around sustainability goals have not had wide uptake in SDG planning or for environmental governance planning in general (but see, Singh, 2020;Singh et al, 2021).…”

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“…Recent research focused on interlinkages between UN SDG targets-the most comprehensive contemporary set of multidisciplinary development objectives-has highlighted the fact that there are both direct and more complex tradeoffs and cobenefits across different policy objectives (Nilsson et al, 2018;Singh et al, 2018Singh et al, , 2021. In some cases, making progress on coastal sustainability can directly contribute to SDG areas such as food security (SDG 2), longer term economic and employment opportunities (SDG 8), and improved ecosystem states (SDGs 14 and 15) (Blanchard et al, 2017;Lotze et al, 2019).…”

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“…Beyond determining which SDG topic areas are needed to promote a given policy goal (and which SDG topic areas can be detrimental for a given goal), governing the land-sea interface will require an understanding of what management activities to conduct and how to best achieve these activities. Aligning management activities in the context of interlinked SDG topic areas requires coordination in a governance system (Singh, 2020;Singh et al, 2021). Coastal systems are often governed by multiple institutions siloed across the multiple sectors of coastal systems (e.g., fisheries, forestry, agriculture) (Halpern et al, 2008).…”

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Governing the Land-Sea Interface to Achieve Sustainable Coastal Development

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Coastal regions are essential to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) given their importance for human habitation, resource provisioning, employment, and cultural practice. They are also regions where different ecological, disciplinary, and jurisdictional boundaries both overlap and are obscured. We thus propose the land-sea interface as areas where governance systems are most in need of frameworks for systems analysis to meet the SDGs—which are inherently interconnected— and integrate complex interdependencies between human livelihoods, energy, transport, food production, and nutrient flows (among others). We propose a strategic land-sea governance framework built on the sustainable transitions literature to plan for governance to achieve sustainable development across the land-sea interface. To illustrate our proposal, we compare governance planning processes across four case-based scenarios: an industrialized coastal country, a least developed coastal country, a developing coastal country with local dependencies on ocean resources, and a small island developing state primarily dependent on tourism. Through the lens of aligning governance actors and actions vertically (subnational to national), horizontally (across sectors), and programmatically (from goals to implementation), we propose scales at which governance systems may be misaligned, such as where different agencies that affect marine systems have conflicting visions and goals, leading to stalled progress or counterproductive actions. Where possible, we also highlight strategies to align across scales of high level strategic policy, tactical scale institutional mandates and cooperation, and on the ground activities and operations, such as aligning actors based on an analysis of interdependencies of goals.

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Section: Aligning Governance In Land-sea Interface For Sdgsmentioning

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Interactions Between SDG 14 (Life Below Water) and SDG 16 (Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions): A Review of Co-benefits, Synergies, Conflicts, and Trade-Offs

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Achieving SDG 14 in an equitable and just way

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Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 14—life below water—significantly elevated global awareness of the importance of the oceans. It is also a key SDG for achieving the other 16 goals and targets. However, the global community is a long way off achieving this goal and serious equity concerns have been raised in the context of SDG 14. This perspective paper provides a summary of the overall progress, or the lack thereof, in achieving SDG 14 and examines some of the obstacles which might undermine the achievement of this goal, such as weak indicators and a lack of recognition of Indigenous and traditional knowledge. This paper also provides recommendations on how countries and stakeholders could take a step closer to achieving SDG 14. Overall, reiterating the calls of global experts, it is imperative that SDG 14 is implemented in an equitable and just way, without further discriminating against developing countries and vulnerable communities.

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Aiding ocean development planning with SDG relationships in Small Island Developing States

Cited by 24 publications

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Governing the Land-Sea Interface to Achieve Sustainable Coastal Development

Governing the Land-Sea Interface to Achieve Sustainable Coastal Development

Interactions Between SDG 14 (Life Below Water) and SDG 16 (Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions): A Review of Co-benefits, Synergies, Conflicts, and Trade-Offs

Achieving SDG 14 in an equitable and just way

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