A systematic method for assessing progress of achieving sustainable development goals: A case study of 15 countries

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.141875

	A systematic method for assessing progress of achieving sustainable development goals: A case study of 15 countries
	Huan, Yizhong 1,2; Liang, Tao 1,2; Li, Haitao 1; Zhang, Chaosheng 3
刊名	SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
	2021-01-15
卷号	752 页码:24
关键词	Sustainable development goals (SDGs) SDGs assessment SDGs performance Sustainable development Sustainability science Belt and Road Initiative
ISSN号	0048-9697
DOI	10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.141875
通讯作者	Liang, Tao(liangt@igsnrr.ac.cn)
英文摘要	17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) were committed by 193 countries in 2015. Assessing the spatiotemporal progress of achieving the SDGs can help to track the global sustainable development progress and identify critical development issues to eventually accelerate the achievement of SDGs. However, there is a lack of methods for the quantitative assessment of the progress of achieving SDGs at the regional level (above the national level), especially systematic methods that can simultaneously assess regions along the "Belt and Road". To fill this research gap, after classifying 17 SDGs into four dimensions (society, economy, environment, means of implementation and cooperation), we have developed the Composite SDG Index to represent the comprehensive performance of achieving SDGs. Specifically, the index is constructed by two sub-indices, including the SDG subindex used to assess the overall performance of achieving the four dimensional SDGs and the Coupling Coordinated SDG subindex used for the first time in the SDG assessment to measure the coupling coordination degree between the four SDG dimensions. To implement this methodological framework, we chose 15 countries along the "Belt and Road" as the case study, and used 108 indicators to assess the performance of achieving SDGs for these countries. Eventually, various national development models and related policy recommendations were proposed. The three indices included in the methodological framework developed in this study can effectively enhance the global stakeholders' mutual understanding of the progress of achieving SDGs to support regional coordinated planning and national-level strategic decision-making. (C) 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
资助项目	Strategic Priority Research Program A of the Chinese Academy of Sciences[XDA20010301]
WOS关键词	COORDINATED DEVELOPMENT ; BASE-LINES ; INDEX ; MODEL ; SDGS
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology
语种	英语
出版者	ELSEVIER
WOS记录号	WOS:000588243900068
资助机构	Strategic Priority Research Program A of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.igsnrr.ac.cn/handle/311030/156433]
专题	中国科学院地理科学与资源研究所
通讯作者	Liang, Tao
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Geog Sci & Nat Resources Res, Key Lab Land Surface Pattern & Simulat, Beijing, Peoples R China 2.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Beijing, Peoples R China 3.Natl Univ Ireland, Dept Geog, Galway, Ireland
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Huan, Yizhong,Liang, Tao,Li, Haitao,et al. A systematic method for assessing progress of achieving sustainable development goals: A case study of 15 countries[J]. SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT,2021,752:24.
APA	Huan, Yizhong,Liang, Tao,Li, Haitao,&Zhang, Chaosheng.(2021).A systematic method for assessing progress of achieving sustainable development goals: A case study of 15 countries.SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT,752,24.
MLA	Huan, Yizhong,et al."A systematic method for assessing progress of achieving sustainable development goals: A case study of 15 countries".SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 752(2021):24.