Measuring local progress of the 2030 Agenda for SDGs in the Yangtze River Economic Zone, China

Autor: Wentao Yang, Zhugeng Duan, Dongsheng Wei, Bing Liu
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Environment, Development and Sustainability. 24:7178-7194
ISSN: 1573-2975
1387-585X
DOI: 10.1007/s10668-021-01743-z
Popis: The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide a broad spectrum of economic, social and environmental goals to be achieved by 2030. The Yangtze River Economic Zone (YREZ) is an important national regional development strategy in China. National and regional development strategies like the YREZ play a crucial role in achieving the SDGs. Therefore, this paper presents an assessment method for measuring progress of SDGs at the local level and takes the case of the YREZ in China. The local SDGs indicator framework is developed based on availability of good data and alignment with the global indicator framework (SGIF), including 60 indicators covering 17 goals. The local SDGs index and three target indexes are aggregated based on entropy-weighting method. The SDGs progress of each province (municipality) in the YREZ is assessed based on the proposed method. The results show that: (1) all eleven provinces (municipalities) in the YREZ face significant challenges in achieving the SDGs, (2) the local SDGs index is not only correlated with economy development but also with other factors, such as environmental protection and social development; (3) even the wealthiest provinces (municipalities) also face major challenges in meeting several goals of the SDGs, and some poor provinces (municipalities) have achieved good performance in some goals.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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