Conceptualizing Interactions between SDGs and Urban Sustainability Transformations in Covid-19 Times

Krellenberg, Kerstin; Koch, Florian

doi:10.17645/pag.v9i1.3607

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“…These findings are consistent with the studies by [6,54]. They also match [55][56][57], who suggest that the unprecedented health crisis due to the COVID-19 pandemic and its economic effects necessitate a reevaluation of banks' priorities concerning the SDGs in response to urgent health needs (SDG 3) and economic disruptions (SDGs 8 and 9). Ref.…”

Section: Evolution Of Sdg Prevalence Over Timesupporting

confidence: 89%

Unfolding the Transitions in Sustainability Reporting

Li,

Rockinger

2024

Sustainability

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The sustainable development goals (SDGs) have been widely embraced by organizations as a sign of their commitment to sustainability. In this study, we develop a novel SDG-related bidirectional encoder representations from transformers (BERT) model, using the neural network methodology, to determine the thematic evolution of European banks’ sustainability reports. We train this model on the OSDG-CD corpus, which we extend by labeling approximately 10,000 sentences based on SDGs content. The classification capabilities of this model appear to be very effective. Analysts who use our methodology can make faster decisions about the sustainability claims of financial institutions. Our methodology can be extended to non-financial entities. By analyzing the sustainability reports of 98 listed banks covering the accounting periods ranging from 2010 to 2022, we can identify the temporal emphasis of the SDGs. By 2022, climate action had emerged as the most important focus theme. We further validate our classification methodology by establishing a strong correlation between the evolution of SDG prevalence and relevant macroeconomic indicators. We also reveal a difference in focus between various European regions. Finally, we use word counts and k-means cluster analysis to document changes in the objectives of banks by investigating their discussion content.

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Section: Evolution Of Sdg Prevalence Over Timesupporting

confidence: 89%

Unfolding the Transitions in Sustainability Reporting

Li,

Rockinger

2024

Sustainability

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“…Indeed, SDG 3 is the goal for which major discrepancies in previous studies could be reported. However, due to time constraints, our findings do not fully take into consideration research investigating the effects of COVID-19, which is rising [128] and has affected mostly SDGs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 10, and 16 [179]. Research should pursue addressing explicitly SDG 3, its interlinkages with other goals, and the effects of the pandemic in slowing down the pathway towards the achievement of the SDGs [36] to finally foster new solutions.…”

Section: Literature Gapsmentioning

confidence: 82%

Progress by Research to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals in the EU: A Systematic Literature Review

et al. 2023

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Scientific research has been acknowledged to play a pivotal role in achieving the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda. Vice-versa, since its adoption, the 2030 Agenda has been reinvigorating the academic production on sustainable development. This study provides a systematic literature review of the most used and newly developed approaches by academic research to support the achievement of the SDGs in the EU. The results are presented by descriptive, bibliometric, and content analysis. The descriptive analysis highlights a rising interest of scholars in operationalizing the 2030 Agenda, with a growing interest at the urban level. A text-mining tool was employed to scan the most investigated SDGs in the selected papers. Major interest by scholars is devoted to environmental concerns (especially linked to SDG 13, 7, 6, 12, and 15), while social issues (e.g., SDG 4, 5, and 10) still deserve more research. The bibliometric analysis unveiled poor intra-cluster connections, highlighting the need for more transdisciplinary research. The most recurrent research fields on the SDGs in the EU are governance, circular economy, ecosystem services, urban localization, and decision making. We advise future studies to focus on gaps highlighted and adopt a system perspective, boosting Policy Coherence across governance levels and scales of implementation by looking at trade-offs and assessing context-specific priorities.

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“…Since the bibliographic review carried out by Sharifi and Khavarian-Garmsir (2020) on the impact of COVID in cities, accumulating studies have indicated that analyses should involve the granular disaggregation of data to the neighborhood level ( Fu and Zhai 2021 ; Kayanan, Moore-Cherry, and Clavin 2021 ; Krellenberg and Koch 2021 ; Liu et al 2021 ; Viezzer and Biondi 2021 ). Interesting analyses have looked at cities from both developed and developing countries, especially large metropolises such as New York, Chicago, Ontario, London, Rio de Janeiro, Barcelona, Madrid, etc.…”

Section: Theoretical Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Learning About the Incidence and Lethality of COVID-19 in Vulnerable Neighborhoods: The Case of Malaga (Spain)

García-Peña

Molina

Sinoga

2023

International Regional Science Review

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This research delves into the need to use granular analyses at the neighborhood level to study the preexisting conditions of vulnerability that best explain the waves of COVID-19 incidence and mortality. It seems most appropriate to use the comprehensive approach of the sustainable development with variables that analyze the economic, social, environmental, and governance dimensions, given the extensive literature that identifies each as a determining factor for the impact of disease. The work utilizes a composite vulnerability index that allows the city of Malaga to be divided into 434 census sections; waves of incidence and mortality for each section are constructed for the period of March 2020 to March 2021. Cluster analysis reveals that there are five different cluster incidence patterns, whereas the lethality waves are found to behave as a hot-spot phenomenon. The results reveal that neighborhoods that are the most vulnerable in terms of their demographic conditions (large proportion over 65 years of age and dependent) and socioeconomic conditions (severe material deprivation), have been the most affected by COVID-19 infection and mortality.

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Conceptualizing Interactions between SDGs and Urban Sustainability Transformations in Covid-19 Times

Cited by 22 publications

References 57 publications

Unfolding the Transitions in Sustainability Reporting

Unfolding the Transitions in Sustainability Reporting

Progress by Research to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals in the EU: A Systematic Literature Review

Learning About the Incidence and Lethality of COVID-19 in Vulnerable Neighborhoods: The Case of Malaga (Spain)

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