Digital earth for sustainable development goals

Graciela Metternicht; Nornan Mueller; Richard Lucas

doi:10.1007/978-981-32-9915-3_13

Digital earth for sustainable development goals

Graciela Metternicht, Nornan Mueller, Richard Lucas

Western Sydney University

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Sustainable development is nothing new, but it has proven notoriously difficult to implement in practice. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, with 17 goals, 169 targets and 232 associated indicators, was approved at the 2015 UN General Assembly and addresses the economic, social and environmental pillars of development, aspiring to attain by 2030 a sustainable future that balances equitable prosperity within planetary boundaries. While the goals are universal (i.e., applicable to both developing and developed countries), it is left to individual countries to establish national Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) targets according to their own priorities and level of ambition in terms of the scale and pace of transformation aspired to.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Manual of Digital Earth
Editors	Huadong Guo, Michael F. Goodchild, Alessandro Annoni
Place of Publication	Singapore
Publisher	Springer
Pages	443-471
Number of pages	29
ISBN (Electronic)	9789813299153
ISBN (Print)	9789813299146
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9915-3_13
Publication status	Published - 2020

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