[论文解读] The sustainome of global goal interactions varies by country income and is disproportionately influenced by inequalities

David Lusseau, Francesca Mancini|arXiv (Cornell University)|Apr 24, 2018

Sustainability and Climate Change Governance参考文献 31被引用 49

一句话总结

本文估算了 sustainome，即可持续发展目标相互作用的全球图谱，并展示它们的贡献与冲突如何随国家收入而异，并受到不平等的影响。

ABSTRACT

We interact with each other and our environment in rich and complex ways. These interactions form socioecological systems in which human, economic, or natural resources are used and replenished. In 2015, the United Nations set seventeen sustainable development goals (SDGs) to attempt to change the way we live and create by 2030 a sustainable future balancing equitable prosperity within planetary boundaries. We have tended to tackle SDGs in isolation and now we realise that a key hurdle to SDG implementation are conflicts arising from SDG interactions. We estimate here for the first time the sustainome, a global picture of those interactions, and determine the main hurdles to maximising SDG implementation. We show that the relative contribution of SDGs to global sustainable success differ by country income. SDG conflicts within the sustainome mean that we must find new ways to address the impacts of climate change, approaches to reducing inequalities and responsible consumption. Focussing on poverty alleviation and reducing inequalities will also have compounded positive effects on the sustainome. This network approach to sustainability provides a way to prioritise SDG and contextualise targets.

研究动机与目标

• 通过突出目标之间的相互作用来推动综合的SDG分析，而不是把它们孤立对待。
• 量化 sustainome 如何随国家收入水平变化。
• 识别阻碍整体可持续发展进程的关键SDG冲突和枢纽。
• 评估不平等在形成 sustainome 中的作用，以指导政策优先级设置。

提出的方法

• 采用网络方法将SDG相互作用建模为sustainome。
• 估计全球范围内SDG之间的相互作用并评估它们对可持续成功的相对贡献。
• 分析不同收入分类国家中 sustainome 结构的差异。
• 识别与气候变化、不平等减少及负责任消费相关的主要SDG冲突。

实验结果

研究问题

• RQ1 随着国家收入水平不同，SDG相互作用（sustainome）有何差异？
• RQ2 在不同收入组的 sustainome 中，哪些SDG对全球可持续进展贡献最大或带来阻碍？
• RQ3 不平等如何影响 sustainome 的结构与冲突？

主要发现

• SDG 相互作用形成一个网络，某些目标相互冲突或相互强化，从而塑造整体可持续进展。
• SDGs 对全球可持续成功的相对贡献因国家收入而异。
• sustainome 中的SDG冲突表明需要在气候、不平等和消费方面采取综合方法。
• 专注于消除贫困和减少不平等将对 sustainome 产生叠加效应的积极影响。