Modeling interlinkages between sustainable development goals using network analysis

Swain, Ranjula Bali; Ranganathan, Shyam

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105136

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“…The combination of text mining and network analysis helps explore and explain the semantic networks in literature (documents and reports) related to particular themes [46,47]. Specifically, network analysis is useful for understanding overall trends and patterns of research [48,49] because identifying semantic network connections and structures informs policymakers of meaningful relationships among multiple components [50], and enables the tracking and untangling of complexity in exploring research [51]. As the connection structure is considered a transfer of thoughts through networks [52], the analysis of semantic networks helps explain the flow of the transfer and the overall trends of research [53].…”

Section: Methodological Review: Text Mining and Network Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring Strategic Directions of Pandemic Crisis Management: A Text Analysis of World Economic Forum COVID-19 Reports

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2021

Sustainability

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This study aims to understand the global environment of COVID-19 management and guide future policy directions after the pandemic crisis. To this end, we analyzed a series of the World Economic Forum’s COVID-19 response reports through text mining and network analysis. These reports, written by experts in diverse fields, discuss multidimensional changes in socioeconomic situations, various problems created by those changes, and strategies to respond to national crises. Based on 3897 refined words drawn from a morphological analysis of 26 reports (as of the end of 2020), this study analyzes the frequency of words, the relationships among words, the importance of specific documents, and the connection centrality through text mining. In addition, the network analysis helps develop strategies for a sustainable response to and the management of national crises through identifying clusters of words with similar structural equivalence.

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Section: Methodological Review: Text Mining and Network Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring Strategic Directions of Pandemic Crisis Management: A Text Analysis of World Economic Forum COVID-19 Reports

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2021

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“…In connection to this, a potential limitation of all of these approaches is that they only allow for the evaluation of SDG-to-SDG interactions. We identified only three papers that use exclusively official databases to calculate target-to-target interactions (Bali Swain & Ranganathan, 2021;Lusseau & Mancini, 2019;Scherer et al, 2018). Additionally, the review of Bennich et al (2020) cites another study that accounts for interactions among targets using datasets, but it applies a multi-criteria analysis in combination with policy analysis and stakeholder consultation (Allen et al, 2019).…”

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confidence: 99%

The application of soft systems thinking in SDG interaction studies: a comparison between SDG interactions at national and subnational levels in Colombia

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Since the approval of the Agenda 2030, researchers and policy makers have pointed out the need to understand interactions among the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)—suggesting that progress or the lack of progress toward one goal will affect other goals through systemic interactions, producing synergies and trade-offs. However, most of the methods used to account for these interactions rely on hard systems thinking approaches, which are limited by the absence of needed data below national levels. Moreover, a general lack of data also constrains the scope of analysis to the 17 Goals, ignoring their 169 underlying targets. Given these challenges, we report on an experiment using an example of a soft systems thinking methodology: the SDG Synergies approach, which is based not only on available information but also on the elicitation of stakeholder and expert opinions. Thus, the approach allows for analysis of target-to-target interactions at subnational scales. The study, the first of its kind, assessed interactions at two scales: the national level in Colombia and the subnational level in the department of Antioquia. The results reveal profound differences between the two scales, suggesting that national-scale analysis of SDG interlinkages is not certain to capture local-level realities. The findings raise important issues for understanding and managing cross-scale interactions. Our work suggests that soft systems thinking is more appropriate for assessing SDG interactions because such an approach lends itself to conducting target-level analysis at various scales in the face of limited data availability.

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“…The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by the United Nations (General Assembly, 2015) represent a universal set of goals that are interconnected in a complex network of interactions. Their universality implies that none of the SDGs are prioritised, whereas their integrated multi-dimensional nature results in complex feedback between the SDG targets [11].…”

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Building Sustainable Societies through Purpose-Driven Universities: A Case Study from Ashoka University (India)

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Sustainable Development (SD) is the universal essentiality of present times, and universities have a critical role in implementing this initiative through their functioning, policies and practices. To integrate SD goals, universities should have a global outlook that is still locally rooted in its strategies. In the last decade, various theories and recommendations have been proposed and adopted globally for integrating sustainability in higher education systems. In India, environmental education has been mandated at all formal levels in the education system. Still, there is a strong argument that it is not simply a matter of overhauling syllabi and curricula. Instead, universities should be incorporating SD goals into their research and their own operations. Our study aims to investigate the sustainability model of Ashoka University (India) that approaches its commitment through sustainability-focused courses, research, and operations. This study involves an in-depth literature review and uses an established framework to assess the condition of the university towards sustainability issues. Our case study employed observations, data collections, document reviews, and interactions with different stakeholders. The study concludes that the university is mostly in adherence with the framework at this stage. Critical areas of future development within the framework are proposed considering the global context. This research serves as an entry point for evaluating sustainability issues of the Indian higher education system, and hopes to motivate higher education communities to do further research to improve their sustainability performance and their role as agents of change.

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Modeling interlinkages between sustainable development goals using network analysis

Cited by 74 publications

References 25 publications

Exploring Strategic Directions of Pandemic Crisis Management: A Text Analysis of World Economic Forum COVID-19 Reports

Exploring Strategic Directions of Pandemic Crisis Management: A Text Analysis of World Economic Forum COVID-19 Reports

The application of soft systems thinking in SDG interaction studies: a comparison between SDG interactions at national and subnational levels in Colombia

Building Sustainable Societies through Purpose-Driven Universities: A Case Study from Ashoka University (India)

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