Lessons learnt from previous local sustainability efforts to inform local action for the Sustainable Development Goals

Ningrum, Dianty; Malekpour, Shirin; Raven, Rob

doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2021.12.018

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“…The amount of growth, consumption, and investment represents the overall economic output. The level of innovation output is reflected in the level of transformation of innovation achievement (Plummer et al, 2018;Ningrum et al, 2022). Green development takes into account both resources and environmental circumstances (Hausken and Moxnes, 2018;Lu et al, 2021).…”

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Evaluation and prediction of high-quality development in China: A time-spatial analysis from Hubei province

Huang

Tian²,

Khanal³

et al. 2022

Front. Environ. Sci.

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High-quality sustainable development is the common goal pursued by all countries in the world. China’s high-quality development (HQD) includes five concepts of “innovation, coordination, green, opening-up, and sharing”. In this context, we established an evaluation system that included these five fundamental characteristics, used the comprehensive entropy method and BP neural network to evaluate and predict the high-quality development of Hubei Province in China, and conducted a spatiotemporal deductive analysis. The study found that: 1) Economic growth still has an important impact on HQD, for all the five main indicators, “opening-up” and “innovation” have the highest impact weights, which are 0.379 and 0.278, respectively, while the proportions of coordination and sharing are both less than 0.1. 2) There are huge differences in the level of high-quality development between regions in Hubei Province. From 2010 to 2020, the average comprehensive index of Wuhan City was greater than 0.5, which is 7 times that of the second Xiangyang City, and 46 times that of the last Shennongjia district. 3) In the past few years, the overall high-quality development of Hubei Province has shown a fluctuating upward trend. However, due to the impact of COVID-19, during the following years, its comprehensive development index will decline by an average of 5% annually, but starting from 2022, it will gradually increase. As a result, tailored and coordinated sustainable environmental policies of integrating institutional and open-market measures should be provided.

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Evaluation and prediction of high-quality development in China: A time-spatial analysis from Hubei province

Huang

Tian²,

Khanal³

et al. 2022

Front. Environ. Sci.

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“…In 2016, the global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were established, thus providing a comprehensive and multidimensional guide to countries' sustainable development paths until 2030 (Allen et al 2018). Initiatives of different scales and forms have been proposed under the SDGs (Ningrum et al 2022). To express its concern for global climate change, the Chinese government promises to strive to reach a peak in carbon dioxide emissions by 2030 and to reach carbon neutrality by 2060; the Japanese government has adopted the SDGs Implementation Guiding Principles as its main strategic program for the implementation of the SDGs; Sweden's private institutions, civil society, scientific research organizations, and municipalities have established a range of platforms and cooperation mechanisms related to the theme of the Agenda 2030, and the Swedish government has also established a seven-member SDGS National Delegation to encourage and support the exchange of experience and knowledge among international or domestic stakeholders (Guan and Xue 2019).…”

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Life cycle analysis for reconstituted decorative lumber from an ecological perspective: A Review

Zhou

Shi

Kaner

2022

BioRes

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In response to global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Chinese government has pledged to curtail increased carbon dioxide emissions beyond 2030 and to achieve carbon neutrality by 2060, thus achieving a status of an ecological civilization. Reconstituted decorative lumber, with rotary-cut (or planed) veneer from plantation or common species timber as the main raw material, has beneficial development opportunities for forestry from the perspective of an ecological civilization. This paper first discusses China’s current state of ecological civilization, then researches the various life cycles of reconstituted decorative lumber using the life cycle theory and provides a reference for the Chinese reconstituted decorative lumber industry’s development by analyzing progress in related fields. The eco-friendliness of reconstituted decorative lumber is explained via systematic combing, and proposals for the use and promotion of reconstituted decorative lumber in the new period are presented. Research and analysis findings show that it is necessary to comprehensively regulate the production chain of reconstituted decorative lumber based on life cycle. Research on the development and utilization of reconstituted decorative lumber needs to be strengthened. The promotion and marketing of reconstituted decorative lumber can be promoted by emphasizing its ecological significance.

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“…The SDGs provide a global framework to respond to this need (Winans et al, 2021). The achievement of these goals is a major challenge for science, civil society, and governments because of the strong interconnection between the SDGs (Kostetckaia & Hametner, 2021;Nilsson et al, 2018) and the need to prioritize goals, adapt national strategies and policies to align with the SDGs, leverage synergies between goals, and obtain sufficient resources to achieve them (Allen et al, 2021;Aly et al, 2022). This will demand an integrated, holistic, and coherent policy approach involving actors from public and private sectors in the decision-making process (Glass & Newig, 2019).…”

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“…Most of the studies on SDG implementation are conducted at the global or national level, but there are few studies of their practical application at the local level (Benedek et al, 2021; Han et al, 2021; Ningrum et al, 2022). The decision of where to concentrate public investment policies should be conditioned by the achievement of the SDGs and by behavioral and contextual aspects that allow us to understand the specific environment and promote the participation of local stakeholders (Barquet et al, 2021).…”

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Assessment of regional development needs according to criteria based on the Sustainable Development Goals in the Meta Region (Colombia)

Aragonés‐Beltrán

González-Cruz

Camargo

et al. 2022

Sustainable Development

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When a regional government considers investing funds for the sustainable development of its region, it must consider the real needs of the population and the fulfillment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The identification of needs should be carried out with the support of local stakeholders representing various social groups. This paper seeks to answer the question of how to guide public investment policies at the local level, such as improving education, health, transportation and others, to better meet the SDGs. To answer this question, a multi-criteria decision-making process is followed, whereby, once the needs are classified by investment areas, they are prioritized based on criteria derived from the SDGs. The problem is complex because of the difficulty of the local stakeholder engagement process and also because of the interrelationships and influences that arise between all the elements of the decision problem: criteria and alternatives. To address this complexity, the Analytical Network Process method combined with DEMATEL will be followed. This process is applied to the case study of the distribution of funds allocated by the Government of Colombia to the Meta Region (Colombia) with the participation of 48 stakeholders to identify needs and the support of six experts in sustainability and project management for their prioritization.

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Lessons learnt from previous local sustainability efforts to inform local action for the Sustainable Development Goals

Cited by 19 publications

References 79 publications

Evaluation and prediction of high-quality development in China: A time-spatial analysis from Hubei province

Evaluation and prediction of high-quality development in China: A time-spatial analysis from Hubei province

Life cycle analysis for reconstituted decorative lumber from an ecological perspective: A Review

Assessment of regional development needs according to criteria based on the Sustainable Development Goals in the Meta Region (Colombia)

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