The Beacon Project: Using Biodiversity and Energy justice to resolve Conflicts between Sustainable Development Goals

灯塔项目：利用生物多样性和能源正义解决可持续发展目标之间的冲突

• 批准号: MR/T019018/1
• 负责人: Isabel Jones
• 金额: $ 122.82万
• 依托单位: University of Stirling
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=MR%2FT019018%2F1
• 关键词: Beacon; Project; Using; Biodiversity; Energy

United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) promote global economic and social prosperity while simultaneously seeking to protect the environment. All UN member states are signatories to achieving SDGs under the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. However, competing objectives of SDGs require decision-makers to trade-off SDGs, leading to damaging and unequal distribution of costs and benefits for people and the environment, which ultimately prevents sustainable development. To address this global problem I will apply a novel approach using hydropower as a model system, to deliver the critical step change in interdisciplinary research needed to quantify the trade-offs, conflicts and synergies between SDGs and between stakeholders. This project will identify, forecast, prevent and mitigate conflicts associated with development processes, to achieve equitable sustainable development now and beyond the 2030 sustainable development targets. Our global energy dilemma highlights and exemplifies trade-offs between SDGs. The increasing human population and growing energy demand challenges whether we can have secure, affordable and equitable energy without adversely affecting people and the environment. Solving the multifaceted challenges presented by the global energy dilemma has been hindered by the historic separation of environmental and social sciences and the humanities. This project combines these disciplines to address the complexity of energy development, stakeholder justice, and environmental sustainability. The overall aim of the project is to deliver the tools needed for equitable decision-making, by designing an innovative framework for decision-makers that explicitly considers the complex social-environmental dimensions of development.Large hydropower schemes (dam height >15 m) bring conflicts between SDGs and stakeholders into sharp focus. More than 9700 large hydropower dams have been constructed worldwide providing energy and boosting industrial infrastructure development. However, such dams have displaced an estimated 40-80 million people, and, through reservoir creation and river flow disruption, we have lost environments that are important for biodiversity and climate change mitigation. Thus, hydropower development puts significant pressure on SDGs that focus on local livelihoods and food security, justice and accountability, water, ecosystems and global biodiversity. Despite uncertainty over future energy gains under changing climatic and rainfall patterns, national and international investment for new dams is rising.To deliver the tools needed to ensure development processes are equitable and accountable, this project will engage multiple stakeholders, including those traditionally marginalised in the decision-making process, alongside high-level decision-makers across different socio-political and environmental contexts in Brazil, Kazakhstan, India and Scotland. Data and methods from social-environmental surveys, Earth observation, and the energy justice framework will be integrated throughout this project to develop a toolkit for local people, NGOs, civil society, and high-level decision-makers to increase equity and transparency of development processes. A network of more than 15 world-leading project partners including NGOs, international institutions, expert advisors and academic institutions actively support this research.To achieve international sustainable development, conflicts between SDGs and stakeholders must be prevented and resolved. This project delivers the innovative interdisciplinary tools needed to change current development decision-making practice to explicitly incorporate the complex social-environmental dimensions of development. Thus, this project will ensure that global development is equitable and sustainable now and beyond the 2030 targets.

联合国可持续发展目标（SDG）促进全球经济和社会繁荣，同时寻求保护环境。所有联合国成员国都是实现《2030 年可持续发展议程》可持续发展目标的签署国。然而，可持续发展目标的相互竞争的目标要求决策者权衡可持续发展目标，从而导致人类和环境的成本和收益的破坏性和不平等分配，最终阻碍可持续发展。为了解决这一全球性问题，我将采用一种新颖的方法，以水电为模型系统，为跨学科研究提供关键的一步变革，以量化可持续发展目标之间以及利益相关者之间的权衡、冲突和协同作用。该项目将识别、预测、预防和减轻与发展进程相关的冲突，以实现现在和2030年可持续发展目标之后的公平可持续发展。我们的全球能源困境凸显并体现了可持续发展目标之间的权衡。人口的增加和能源需求的增长对我们是否能够在不对人类和环境产生不利影响的情况下获得安全、负担得起和公平的能源提出了挑战。环境科学、社会科学和人文科学的历史性分离阻碍了解决全球能源困境带来的多方面挑战。该项目结合了这些学科，以解决能源开发、利益相关者正义和环境可持续性的复杂性。该项目的总体目标是通过为决策者设计一个创新框架，明确考虑发展的复杂社会环境维度，提供公平决策所需的工具。大型水电计划（大坝高度> 15 m）使可持续发展目标与利益相关者之间的冲突成为焦点。全球已建成 9700 多座大型水坝，提供能源并促进工业基础设施发展。然而，此类水坝估计已导致 40-8000 万人流离失所，而且由于修建水库和扰乱河流，我们失去了对生物多样性和减缓气候变化至关重要的环境。因此，水电开发给关注当地生计和粮食安全、正义和问责、水、生态系统和全球生物多样性的可持续发展目标带来了巨大压力。尽管在不断变化的气候和降雨模式下未来的能源收益存在不确定性，但国家和国际对新水坝的投资正在增加。为了提供确保开发过程公平和负责任所需的工具，该项目将吸引多个利益相关者，包括传统上在决策过程中被边缘化的利益相关者，以及巴西、哈萨克斯坦、印度和苏格兰不同社会政治和环境背景的高层决策者。来自社会环境调查、地球观测和能源正义框架的数据和方法将整合到整个项目中，为当地人民、非政府组织、民间社会和高层决策者开发一个工具包，以提高发展进程的公平性和透明度。由包括非政府组织、国际机构、专家顾问和学术机构在内的超过15个世界领先项目合作伙伴组成的网络积极支持这项研究。为了实现国际可持续发展，必须预防和解决可持续发展目标与利益相关者之间的冲突。该项目提供了改变当前发展决策实践所需的创新跨学科工具，以明确纳入发展的复杂社会环境维度。因此，该项目将确保全球发展在现在以及 2030 年目标之后是公平和可持续的。

项目成果

Can diet niche partitioning enhance sexual dimorphism?

• DOI: 10.1002/ece3.9599
• 发表时间: 2022-12
• 期刊: Ecology and evolution
• 影响因子: 2.6

Incomplete recovery of tree community composition and rare species after 120 years of tropical forest succession in Panama

• DOI: 10.1111/btp.13275
• 发表时间: 2023-10
• 期刊: Biotropica
• 影响因子: 2.1
• 作者: Alexander D. Elsy;Marion Pfeifer;Isabel L. Jones;S. DeWalt;Omar R. Lopez;D. Dent

Achieving international biodiversity targets: Learning from local norms, values and actions regarding migratory waterfowl management in Kazakhstan.

• DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.14198
• 发表时间: 2022-07
• 期刊: JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY
• 影响因子: 5.7
• 作者: Jones, Isabel L.;Timoshenko, Alexey;Zuban, Ivan;Zhadan, Konstantin;Cusack, Jeremy J.;Duthie, A. Bradley;Hodgson, Isla D.;Minderman, Jeroen;Pozo, Rocio A.;Whytock, Robin C.;Bunnefeld, Nils
• 通讯作者: Bunnefeld, Nils

Soil resistance and recovery during neotropical forest succession.

• DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2021.0074
• 发表时间: 2023-01-02
• 期刊: PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
• 影响因子: 6.3
• 作者: van der Sande, Masha T.;Powers, Jennifer S.;Kuyper, Thom W.;Norden, Natalia;Salgado-Negret, Beatriz;de Almeida, Jarcilene Silva;Bongers, Frans;Delgado, Diego;Dent, Daisy H.;Derroire, Geraldine;Santo, Mario Marcos do Espirito;Dupuy, Juan Manuel;Wilson Fernandes, Geraldo;Finegan, Bryan;Gavito, Mayra E.;Hernandez-Stefanoni, Jose Luis;Jakovac, Catarina C.;Jones, Isabel L.;Veloso, Maria das Dores Magalhaes;Meave, Jorge A.;Mora, Francisco;Munoz, Rodrigo;Perez-Cardenas, Nathalia;Piotto, Daniel;Alvarez-Davila, Esteban;Caceres-Siani, Yasmani;Dalban-Pilon, Coralie;Dourdain, Aurelie;Du, Dan, V;Garcia Villalobos, Daniel;Nunes, Yule Roberta Ferreira;Sanchez-Azofeifa, Arturo;Poorter, Lourens
• 通讯作者: Poorter, Lourens

Models as games: a novel approach for 'gamesourcing' parameter data and communicating complex models

模型作为游戏：一种用于“游戏采购”参数数据和通信复杂模型的新颖方法

• DOI: 10.1101/2021.09.23.461497
• 发表时间: 2021
• 作者: Minderman J