... Numerous studies have been carried out that analyze the inter-linkages between the 17 SDGs. These include adopting a nexus approach to ascertain the impact of one goal on another (El Gafy, Grigg, & Reagan, 2017;Liu et al., 2018;Putra, Pradhan, & Kropp, 2020;Zhang, Wang, Pradhan, Zhao, & Fu, 2022a), network analysis (Zhou, Moinuddin, & Xu, 2017), developing SDG models (Collste, Pedercini, & Cornell, 2017) and examining the degree of interdependence between the various SDGs (Nilsson et al., 2018). These studies have focused on adopting a holistic approach to collectively achieve SDGs either as a whole or by further bifurcating them into "essential needs," "objectives" and "governance" (Putra et al., 2020;Zhang et al., 2022a;Zhang, Wang, Pradhan, Zhao, & Fu, 2022b). ...