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The SDG 'Wedding cake' shows the biosphere as the foundation of economies and societies and as the basis of all SDGs. Such a conceptualization adopts an integrated view of social, economic, and ecological development. 5 (Source: Azote Images for Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University)
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The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development with its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) charts a new path of balance for humanity and the planet. The highly interconnected SDGs will only be achieved in their entirety through transformative changes in our societies. Recent studies on the interactions between the SDGs identify the conservation o...
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The 17 sustainable development goals proposed in the 2030 sustainable development agenda are the shared vision of all humanity. The core of achieving the sustainable development goals is to ensure grain security. Although financial inclusion is not separately incorporated into the United Nations sustainable development goals, it is an essential bas...
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... Proposed policies and efforts for achieving any goals are based on the understanding of interactions between individual SDGs. The interactions may be synergistic or antithetic with regard to achieving the co-benefits of the framework and trade-offs may be needed to ensure success (Obrecht et al. 2021). ...
Member States of the United Nations proposed Seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015, emphasizing the well-being of people, planet, prosperity, peace, and partnership. Countries are expected to work diligently to achieve these goals by the year 2030. The paths chosen to achieve the SDGs depend on each country’s specific needs, challenges, and opportunities. This contribution conducts a bibliometric study of selected SDG research related to hunger and climate change among countries of the North Asia Pacific region. A review of literature related to the seventeen SDGs is provided to update the current research in SDGs as a background for the regional bibliometric search. The academic published literature related to this work were collected and text mined to create a research database for trend analysis. In this research, the natural language model KeyBERT and a text mining algorithm for normalized term frequency were used to extract key terminologies for bibliometric analysis. The study provides an overview of the seventeen SDGs in the literature review and then focuses on SDG 2 (zero hunger) and SDG 13 (climate action) publication trends. These two SDGs are in close alignment with sustainable food systems and agricultural development. The conclusion indicates that greater cooperation (SDG 17) is critical to improving the quality of life within the region and in building an ethical framework that restricts external exploitation of resources that benefit newly developed economies over developing economies.
... The 2030 agenda comprises 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) and 169 constituent targets that guide countries toward the simultaneous achievement of "economic development, environmental sustainability and social inclusion" (United Nations General Assembly, 2015). Among these 17 goals, SDG 15 (Life on land) and 14 (Life below water) are considered to be particularly important because biodiversity fundamentally underpins human wellbeing and is thus considered central to the achievement of multiple SDGs (Blicharska et al., 2019;Brooks et al., 2015;Obrecht et al., 2021;Opoku, 2019;Pham-Truffert et al., 2020;Wood et al., 2018). Despite the global importance of biodiversity, competing economic and social development goals are often prioritized nationally, which has resulted in rapid declines in biodiversity worldwide (Eisenmenger et al., 2020;United Nations, 2022). ...
Achieving the sustainable development goals (SDGs) requires a context-specific understanding of how actions to achieve one goal interact with others. We analyzed statistical data, and conducted online surveys and interviews with conservation professionals to understand how terrestrial conservation goals (SDG 15: Life on land) influence and are influenced by other goals in Nepal. Our findings suggest that SDG 15 synergized with economic growth (SDG 8), gender equality (SDG 5), water access (SDG 6), sustainable production and consumption (SDG 12), and climate action (SDG 13), but traded off with food security (SDG 2), energy access (SDG 7), poverty alleviation (SDG 1), and infrastructure development (SDG 9). Increased multi-sectoral collaboration between conservation and development stakeholders is urgently needed to address the negative impacts of other goals on SDG 15. Additionally, conservation measures in Nepal can benefit from being more people-focused, participatory, and contextualized to mitigate negative impacts on socioeconomic goals.
... For example, area-based measures , such as Protected Areas (MPA), is a globally recognized approach [3] to nature conservation that plays an important role in reducing habitat loss [4] , including maintaining species populations and providing a functioning environment for people [5] .With the decrease in biodiversity, nearly one million species are facing extinction, ecosystems are being destroyed and ecosystem services are decreasing. This issue is particularly noticeable in the case of many species that play a regulatory and supporting role [6] . The 2030 Agenda with 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) regarding the protection of biodiversity support a growing scientific consensus that coherent policies are needed to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. ...
... The knowledge of SDGs by city residents accelerates the adoption of conservation measures toward biodiversity hubs and better environmental stewardship of natural resources (Frank & Schäffler, 2019;Kariuki et al., 2023). A deficit in the knowledge base of the importance of SDGs in biodiversity conservation results in the destruction of key habitats where the consequences are irreversible and negative on the environment (Bhola et al., 2021;Obrecht, et al., 2021). A short fall in recognizing the importance of SDGs in ensuring environmental sustainability has had economic and infrastructural development being prioritized over habitat conservation (KIPPRA, 2020). ...
... SDGs 11 and 15 which focus on sustainable global cities and life on land are instrumental in providing better avenues for enhancing biodiversity conservation (Hoffmann, 2022;Kathambi & Ogutu, 2021). Previous studies have projected biodiversity conservation as having the potential to aid the restoration of the earth and replenish the overexploited natural resources when employed (Obrecht et al., 2021;Pototsky & Cresswell, 2021). Thus, SDGs in totality provide the avenue to improve environmental sustainability thereby impacting positively the survival of humanity and securing resources for the future generation (Obrecht et al., 2021;Obura, 2020). ...
... Previous studies have projected biodiversity conservation as having the potential to aid the restoration of the earth and replenish the overexploited natural resources when employed (Obrecht et al., 2021;Pototsky & Cresswell, 2021). Thus, SDGs in totality provide the avenue to improve environmental sustainability thereby impacting positively the survival of humanity and securing resources for the future generation (Obrecht et al., 2021;Obura, 2020). ...
... The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development provides the means to develop and implement solutions to complex global challenges, such as Zero Water Day(s) scenarios. Conceptualizations such as the SDG 'Wedding cake' have helped to visualize the three dimensions of sustainable development: social; economic; and environmental and their relationship to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) [7]. The 17 SDGs and their targets can stimulate action in five areas of critical importance for humanity and the planet. ...
Water is a finite natural resource. Zero Water Day(s) scenarios are challenging people and communities in Europe and worldwide. The public health community must seize the opportunity to prepare for Zero Water Day(s) through strengthening capacity and capability to respond to rapidly emerging emergencies as well as protected crises. Collaboration across sectors on water conservation and public health is key to tackling the consumptive environment and extractive economic systems.
... Traditionally, One Health is illustrated with a Venn diagram: three static circles of animal and human health and the environment [see 12 You have the biosphere with the SDGs 6, 13, 14, and 15 at the bottom and then health is one layer above. … protecting the biosphere is foundational to the health of all. ...
... The paths countries must follow to achieve sustainability will depend on the specific challenges and opportunities that each country faces (Pires et al., 2021). Overall, biosphere components of sustainability are considered the base of such transformative change and they can speed up social and economic outcomes (Folke et al., 2016;Obrecht et al., 2021). Megadiverse countries rich in natural resources would have advantages in designing their strategy to reach sustainability (Scherer et al., 2018). ...
Brazil is a powerhouse in terms of water resources, which are instrumental to the country’s transition to sustainability. However, to realize this potential, substantial management and conservation hurdles must first be overcome. We propose a novel strategy for the use, management, and conservation of Brazilian water resources. Our approach recognizes the spatial heterogeneity of water abundance and is based on a multisectoral perspective, including energy, food, sanitation, and environmental conservation. The main recommendations are to adopt low-cost local and subnational solutions and to design policy mixes, both based on the logic of the nexus water-food-energy-ecosystem. We offer as examples programs that 1) increase cistern infrastructure in drylands, 2) use constructed wetlands to improve sewage treatment in small cities and vulnerable areas, 3) turn the focus of conservation to aquatic ecosystems, 4) stimulate the adoption of small hydrokinetic turbines for energy generation in sparsely populated river-abundant regions, such as the Amazon Region, 5) diversify the matrix of renewable energy sources by combining hydropower with biomass and wind energy generation, and 6) mixes policies by integrating multiple sectors to improve regulation, use and management of water resources, such as the Brazilian “Water for All” Program. By following these recommendations, Brazil would align itself with the goals established in international agreements and would turn its abundance of water resources into development opportunities.
... The 17 EAT (2016) suggests Goals 6 (clean water); 13 (climate action); 14 (life under water) and 15 (life on Land) are the foundational goals. While these four SDGs do support the remaining 13, Obrecht et al. (2021) discuss the idea that coherent policies to achieve all the SDGs require an understanding of interactions between individual SDGs, and that such interactions may be synergistic or antithetic. These interactions give rise to the idea that co-benefits can accrue between SDGs thereby accelerating progress, or that trade-offs may be needed to ensure progress. ...
Ecohydrology, as an integrating discipline, can contribute strongly to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) especially in the context of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM). Using ecohydrology principles in applying IWRM affords a better understanding of the links between water, biodiversity, and human wellbeing in the catchments. One problem with the SDGs is that they are presented in a “silo” style, which means there are few if any connections between SDG6 “clean water and sanitation” and SDG 15 “life on land”, which deals with wetlands and catchments. Ecohydrology principles, drawing on the need to better understand green and blue infrastructure, can help bridge between the SDGs in an IWRM context, allowing thus for their more successful achievement.
The Convention on Wetlands (Ramsar, 1971) has degrees of overlap and redundancy with the UNECE Water Convention (1992). And both rely on better science, policy, and management of catchments for effective implementation. Ecohydrology can help promote and develop the science base of these Multilateral Environment Agreements allowing for interpretation of catchment processes and dynamics, and thus better application of IWRM, and ultimately better policies for management of water resources, and thus alleviation of water scarcity.
Ecohydrology can also play a role in fostering social science research in catchments, heritage management and conservation. So far in UNESCO, ecohydrology has been largely dealt with by the International Hydrological Programme, in the Division of Water Sciences. There is a future role for ecohydrology as a cross-cutting theme across all UNESCO Sectors, led by the Natural Sciences Sector.
