Assessing progress towards sustainable development over space and time
Assessing progress towards sustainable development over space and time
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DOI：
10.1038/s41586-019-1846-3
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发表时间：
2020-01-02
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影响因子：
64.8
通讯作者：
Liu, Jianguo
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作者：
Xu, Zhenci;Chau, Sophia N.;Liu, Jianguo
为了应对全球挑战(1-4)，193个国家承诺实现17项联合国可持续发展目标(5)。量化实现可持续发展目标的进展情况，对于跟踪全球实现可持续发展的努力和指导政策的制定和执行至关重要。然而，缺乏评估实现可持续发展目标的时空进展情况的系统方法。在这里，我们开发和测试系统的方法，以量化中国在国家和国家以下各级实现17项可持续发展目标的进展情况。我们的分析表明，从2000年到2015年，中国的可持续发展指数得分(代表实现全部17个可持续发展目标的总体表现的综合得分)在全国范围内有所上升。在此期间，各省的SDG指数得分也有所提高。不同地区之间存在很大的时空差异。例如，21世纪头10年，东部中国的SDG指数得分高于西部中国；2015年，南方中国的SDG指数得分高于北部中国。在国家层面，17个可持续发展目标中有13个的得分随着时间的推移而提高，但有4个可持续发展目标的得分下降。这项研究表明，有必要跟踪全球一级和其他国家实现可持续发展目标进展的时空动态。
To address global challenges(1-4), 193 countries have committed to the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)(5). Quantifying progress towards achieving the SDGs is essential to track global efforts towards sustainable development and guide policy development and implementation. However, systematic methods for assessing spatio-temporal progress towards achieving the SDGs are lacking. Here we develop and test systematic methods to quantify progress towards the 17 SDGs at national and subnational levels in China. Our analyses indicate that China's SDG Index score (an aggregate score representing the overall performance towards achieving all 17 SDGs) increased at the national level from 2000 to 2015. Every province also increased its SDG Index score over this period. There were large spatio-temporal variations across regions. For example, eastern China had a higher SDG Index score than western China in the 2000s, and southern China had a higher SDG Index score than northern China in 2015. At the national level, the scores of 13 of the 17 SDGs improved over time, but the scores of four SDGs declined. This study suggests the need to track the spatio-temporal dynamics of progress towards SDGs at the global level and in other nations.