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Supporting SDG 15, Life on Land: Identifying the Main Drivers of Land Degradation in Honghe Prefecture, China, between 2005 and 2015 [PDF]

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2020
The essence of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted by the United Nations is described in 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). SDG 15 focuses on Life on Land, in other words, terrestrial biodiversity and ecosystems, as well as their services.
Tuo Wang, Gregory Giuliani, Anthony Lehmann, Yangming Jiang, Xiaodong Shao, Liping Li, Huihui Zhao   +6 more
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SDG-15: Life on Land

Sustainable Development Goals Series, 2022
AbstractPopulation increases, industry, urbanisation, infrastructure development and agricultural expansion influence landscapes, lowering total habitat size and quality and resulting in ecological degradation. SDG-15, Life on Land, aims to maintain, restore and enhance the utilisation of the terrestrial environment and forest management sustainably ...
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Trade and Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 15: Promoting "Life on Land" through mandatory and voluntary approaches [PDF]

, 2017
Sustainable Development Goal 15 deals with "Life on Land." Its nine targets and three means of implementation cover a vast array of environmentally sensitive issues related to land-based renewable natural resources. This paper explores the channels through which trade can address them. Approaches are categorized as mandatory or voluntary.
Andrew, Dale
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Links and trade-offs between fisheries and environmental protection in relation to the sustainable development goals in Thailand [PDF]

, 2020
The fisheries sector significantly contributes to global food security, nutrition, and livelihood of people. Its importance for economic benefits, healthy diets, and nutrition, and achieving sustainable food systems is highlighted by several Sustainable ...
Goethals, Peter, Ho, Long Tuan, Lachat, Carl, Sampantamit, Tiptiwa, Van Echelpoel, Wout   +4 more
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Towards understanding interactions between Sustainable Development Goals: the role of environment–human linkages [PDF]

, 2020
Only 10 years remain to achieve all Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) globally, so there is a growing need to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of action by targeting multiple SDGs.
Balfour, Nicholas, Brock, Rebecca C, Brown, Claire, Burgess, Neil D, Guth, Miriam K, Ingram, Daniel J, Kapos, Valerie, Lane, Richard, Martin, Juliette G C, Scharlemann, Jorn P W, Wicander, Sylvia   +10 more
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Analysing trade-offs and synergies between SDGs for urban development, food security and poverty alleviation in rapidly changing peri-urban areas: a tool to support inclusive urban planning [PDF]

, 2020
Transitional peri-urban contexts are frontiers for sustainable development where land-use change involves negotiation and contestation between diverse interest groups.
Butcher, Bradley, Dolley, Jonathan, Eray, Baris, Marshall, Fiona, Quadrianto, Novi, Reffin, Jeremy, Robinson, James Alexander   +6 more
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Opportunities and challenges for the sustainability of lakes and reservoirs in relation to the sustainable development goals (SDGs) [PDF]

, 2019
Emerging global threats, such as biological invasions, climate change, land use intensification, and water depletion, endanger the sustainable future of lakes and reservoirs.
Goethals, Peter, Ho, Long Tuan
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Financial crises and the attainment of the SDGs: an adjusted multidimensional poverty approach [PDF]

, 2020
This paper analyses the impact of financial crises on the Sustainable Development Goal of eradicating poverty. To do so, we develop an adjusted Multidimensional Poverty Framework (MPF) that includes 15 indicators that span across key poverty aspects ...
A Antoniades, A Chakrabarti, A Diorio, A Kemmler, A Sen, A Siddiqui, AL Rice, Alexander S. Antonarakis, AM McGahan, Andreas Antoniades, B Dube, BIS, D Diz, D Hulme, DA Freedman, Development Initiatives, Development Initiatives, DF Hendry, DK Imana, DL Pelletier, F Achard, FF Nerini, FT Filippidis, G Chen, H White, HG Barkema, I Anderson, I Widiarto, ID Poloamina, IMF, IMF, IMF, Indra Widiarto, International Council for Science, J Alcamo, J Fairhead, J Piesse, J Pretty, J Weststrate, JC Slocumb, JH Mills Busa, JI Uitto, JN Lekakis, JPW Scharlemann, K Burke, K Lee, K Schreckenberg, K Schulze, KD Hoover, KD Hoover, KT Alexander, L Alkema, L Rajmil, L Wrisdale, M Afzal, M Clemens, Marcus Manuel, MH Brenner, Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, M.E.A, MN Shafiq, MR Busemeyer, MS Allahyari, N Imai, OECD, P Pradhan, P Streeten, PG Curtis, S Alkira, S Alkire, S Borenstein, S Chen, S Devarajan, S Makino, SO Rutstein, U Al-mulali, World Bank, Y Zhang, Y Zhou, YZ Ghouali, ZG Liu   +79 more
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Decolonizing, conviviality and convivial conservation: towards a convivial SDG 15, life on land?

Journal of Political Ecology, 2021
In their article 'Towards convivial conservation' (2019), Büscher and Fletcher propose a vision for conservation which partly builds on Ivan Illich's 1973 book Tools for conviviality. Given a growing chorus of voices calling for decolonizing conservation to address the ramifications of racialized mindsets and biases,this article asks: what role could ...
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Developing a Global Soil Regime [PDF]

, 2015
From the 1960s onwards, the global community became more aware of the phenomena of air and water pollution. More recently, the issues of climate change, loss of biodiversity, desertification, drought, and land degradation have become more prominent ...
Boer, Ben, Hannam, Ian
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