Distilling the role of ecosystem services in the Sustainable Development Goals

Wood, Stephen C.; Jones, Sarah K.; Johnson, Justin A.; Brauman, Kate A.; Chaplin‐Kramer, Rebecca; Fremier, Alexander K.; Girvetz, Evan H.; Gordon, Line; Kappel, Carrie V.; Mandle, Lisa; Mulligan, Mark; O’Farrell, Patrick J.; Smith, William K.; Willemen, L.; Zhang, Wei; DeClerck, Fabrice

doi:10.1016/j.ecoser.2017.10.010

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“…SDG expert groups can reveal relationships between goals but assess contributions to SDG targets unevenly (Wood et al, ). Expert panels or elicitation are often used for revealing opinions for global issues such as SDG (Dlouhá & Pospíšilová, ; Wood et al, ). Also, in studies of scenarios forecasting of SDGs, the three dimensions of governance (security, capacity, and inclusion) are on the top of the importance list (Joshi, Hughes, & Sisk, ), whereas in our study, environmental issues are in most importance.…”

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“…Greece was selected for sampling method because, as a developed country, member state of the EU and UN, and actively participating in SDG and other international directives and networks towards SD (i.e., European Sustainable Development Network [ESDN], Convention on Biological Diversity [CBD], Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals‐CITES, Framework Convention on Climate Change [FCCC], Kyoto Protocol, and Paris Agreement), it is a representative country for fulfilling the aim of this research. First, using a nonprobability sampling technique, judgmental sampling, we created a list with all relevant experts in Greece (Wood et al, ). Second, we categorized experts in groups or strata with the stratifying sampling method as a modification of random and systematic sampling.…”

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Mapping Sustainable Development Goals: A network analysis framework

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Nastis

2019

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The sustainable development goals proposed by the United Nations in 2015 presented a new graphic depicting the s17 goals in a table‐like format. This overlaps with the original Venn diagram of sustainable development developed after 1987. The two graphics are used independently, often raising the question of how they are linked. The aim of this paper is to investigate how the Sustainable Development Goals graphic can be simplified as a concept and framework using the Venn diagram of sustainable development. We employ expert elicitation using a networking analysis framework to provide answers. The resulting diagrams provide an important step towards combining the two graphics into one.

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Mapping Sustainable Development Goals: A network analysis framework

Dalampira

Nastis

2019

Sustainable Development

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“…A recent investigation indicated that 16 selected provisioning, regulating, supporting and cultural ecosystem services contribute to 44 of the 169 SDG targets (Wood et al, 2018). The study showed that one or more ecosystem services contribute strongly to SDG targets 6.3, 11.5, 11.6, 11.7, and 11.a, and 14 of the selected ecosystem services contribute weakly to SDG 11.c.…”

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Benchmarking Nature-Based Solution and Smart City Assessment Schemes Against the Sustainable Development Goal Indicator Framework

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Huovila

Castell-Rüdenhausen

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Front. Environ. Sci.

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Increasing global urbanization yields substantial potential for enhanced sustainability through careful management of urban development and optimized resource use efficiency. Nature-based solutions (NBS) can provide a means for cities to successfully navigate the water-energy-climate relationship, thus enhancing urban resilience. Implementation of NBS can improve local or regional economic resilience underpinned by the sustainable use of natural resources. The innovative governance, institutional, business, and finance models and frameworks inherent to NBS implementation also provide a wealth of opportunity for social transformation and increased social inclusiveness in cities. The ultimate benefit of NBS implementation in cities is increased livability, which is typically measured as a function of multiple social, economic and environmental variables. Given the range of different interventions classified as NBS and the cross-sectoral character of their co-benefits, different assessment schemes can be used to evaluate NBS performance and impact. Herein, performance and impact indicators within three robust NBS-and Smart City-related assessment schemes-Mapping and Assessment of Ecosystems and their Services (MAES), Knowledge and Learning Mechanism on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (EKLIPSE), and Smart City Performance Measurement Framework (CITYkeys)-were critically analyzed with respect to Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 11, "Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable." Each selected assessment scheme was benchmarked with respect to the Inter-Agency Expert Group on SDG Indicators' global indicator framework for the sub-objectives of SDG 11. The alignment between each of the selected NBS assessment schemes and the SDG indicator framework was mapped with particular emphasis on consistency with city-level framework indicators for each SDG 11 sub-objective. The results were illustrated as composite scores describing the alignment of the analyzed NBS and Smart city assessment schemes with the SDG 11 sub-objectives. These results facilitate NBS assessment scheme selection based on alignment between each analyzed assessment scheme and specific SDG 11 sub-objectives. Cities face multiple challenges amidst a complex hierarchy of legislative, Wendling et al.Benchmarking NBS Assessment Against SDG11+ regulatory and other stakeholder obligations. The present study showed that strategic selection of an NBS assessment scheme which closely aligns with one or more sub-objectives within SDG 11 can maximize operational efficiency by exploiting synergies between evaluation schemes.

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“…Wood et al. () also found that most ecosystem service modeling tools have the capacity to assess and evaluate ecosystem services (ES) considered as “highly important” for the attainment of the SDGs, however, few have the capacity to evaluate multiple ecosystems services simultaneously, and many tools lack the capacity to assess and visualize trade‐offs (Kanter et al. ).…”

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“…The reports it generates include results relating ecosystem service change to upward of 40 SDG targets across 10 goals, based on work from Wood et al. (). We illustrate the application and functionality the tool with an illustrative case study in the Volta Basin in West Africa using interventions goals defined by the Volta Basin Authority's Strategic Action Plan (UNEP‐GEF Volta Project ).…”

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Mapping Ecosystem Services to Human Well‐being: a toolkit to support integrated landscape management for the SDGs

Johnson

Jones

Wood

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The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) emphasize the global and multidimensional nature of sustainability and thus require improving our capacity to articulate and trace the impact of ecosystem change to measures of human well-being. Yet, the integrated nature of these goals is challenging to assess without similarly integrated assessment tools. We present a new modeling toolkit, "Mapping Ecosystem Services to Human well-being" (MESH), that integrates commonly used, stand-alone ecosystem services (ES) models from the InVEST suite of models to quantify and illustrate the trade-offs and synergies across five ecosystem services and up to 10 associated SDGs. Development of the software and its functionality were informed by a broad stakeholder consultation with ministries, non-governmental organizations and civil society groups in West Africa to identify common barriers to uptake and application of modeling tools in developing countries. In light of this process, key features included in MESH are (1) integration of multiple ecosystem service (ES) models into a common modeling framework supported by a curated base data set, (2) built-in scenario generation capacity to support policy analysis, (3) visualization of outcomes and trade-offs, and (4) mapping of ecosystem service change to SDG targets and goals. We illustrate the use of MESH in a case study in the Volta basin of West Africa comparing the effectiveness of three alternative conservation prioritization approaches: (1) land cover-based, (2) topographic-based, and (3) an ecosystem service-based approach to minimize the impact of agricultural expansion. We evaluate these approaches by linking changes in service supply to potential impacts on achievement of specific SDG goals and targets.

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Distilling the role of ecosystem services in the Sustainable Development Goals

Abstract: Journal articleIFPRI3; ISI; CRP2; CRP5; E Building ResilienceEPTD; PIMPRCGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM); CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE

Cited by 402 publications

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Mapping Sustainable Development Goals: A network analysis framework

Mapping Sustainable Development Goals: A network analysis framework

Benchmarking Nature-Based Solution and Smart City Assessment Schemes Against the Sustainable Development Goal Indicator Framework

Mapping Ecosystem Services to Human Well‐being: a toolkit to support integrated landscape management for the SDGs

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