Evaluation of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 15.3.1 indicator of land degradation in the European Union

Schillaci, Calogero; Jones, Arwyn Tomos; Vieira, Diana; Munafò, Michele; Montanarella, Luca

doi:10.1002/ldr.4457

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“…This development put in place by the provincial government might have in uenced the vegetation condition, particularly for the year 2000. Consequently, this phenomenon coincides with the sustainable development goal SDG 15 (Life on Land): to preserve, restore and promote sustainable practices and the use of the terrestrial environment(Liu et al, 2019;Schillaci et al, 2023).…”

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An Assessment of the Implications of Deforestation and Climate Change on Rural Livelihood in Ghana: A Multidimensional Analysis and Solution-Based Approach

Adom,

Reids,

Afuye

et al. 2024

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Ghana is endowed with an abundance of natural resources, including vast tracts of natural forest and other vegetation biomes, which serve as livelihood sustenance for a significant number of the population. However, managing these resources sustainably to achieve environmental and economic growth and alleviating poverty remains a significant challenge. Deforestation driven by agriculture, lumbering, mining, infrastructural development, and urban expansion has reduced the forest ecosystems by over 60% over the past three decades. This has threatened the sustainable livelihoods to most of the population, exacerbated by increasing climate irregularity and its devastating consequences. Using data collected through methods inspired by the tradition of quantitative and qualitative research approaches, this paper explores and discusses how the combination of climate change and deforestation, are compromising the livelihood options of poor and vulnerable communities in Ghana. We further argue that the poor are not passive actors but are actively involved in identifying systems and processes through which to build their adaptive capacity and resilience to climate change induced environmental changes. Despite this, we argue that the ability of the poor and vulnerable communities to adapt comprehensively to climate change induced challenges is being hampered by institutional and policy weaknesses as well as a lack of meaningful engagement and collaboration between different and interested stakeholders. In view of this, we argue for an evidence-based and inclusive approaches which will propagate the participation of marginalised and vulnerable groups of people in the design and co-production of solutions in order to develop policies and strategies that are more transformative and towards achieving sustainable communities. These themes have been argued within the framework of the Sustainable Development Goals, particularly goal number 8.

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An Assessment of the Implications of Deforestation and Climate Change on Rural Livelihood in Ghana: A Multidimensional Analysis and Solution-Based Approach

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Reids,

Afuye

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“…The purpose of LS was to encourage SDSS use both during and after the project's completion by ensuring users' participation in the SDSS's design and testing as well as technical training on the SDSS's. Policy analysis was based on four pertinent land policies and directives that were identified as having overarching importance in the EU and its Member States: (i) 7th Environmental Action Plan; (ii) COM 2006/231 Soil Strategy; (iii) Dir 2000/60/EC Water Directive; (iv) Dir 2007/2/EC INSPIRE Directive, and the land‐related targets of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in particular, SDGs 2 “Zero Hunger,” 3 “good health and well‐being,” 13 “Climate action,” SDG 15, with a special emphasis to the key SDG 15.3.1 (Schillaci et al, 2023), “achieving a land degradation‐neutral world” (LDN) and climate change (CC) mitigation goals. The following section provides a description of the details of the policy‐support analyses, the linkages of the SDSS with SDG 15, and the co‐design of tools with stakeholders.…”

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A framework for co‐designing decision‐support systems for policy implementation: The LANDSUPPORT experience

Stankovics,

Schillaci,

Pump

et al. 2024

Land Degrad Dev

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This work proposes a framework for co‐designing decision‐support tools for sustainable land management and soil protection at multiple scales. Geospatial dashboards, due to their key capabilities in the use of spatial or geospatial information, are quickly gaining traction for planning and policymaking. Developing the decision‐support system (DSS) as a transversal system capable of capturing trends in land and soil properties at the local, regional, national, and EU levels has been co‐designed with policy stakeholders. This work seeks to link (i) the main goal of the Soil Mission and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), to raise awareness and knowledge on soil conditions (ii) and the LANDSUPPORT (LS) project cross‐evaluation on how the spatial decision‐support system (SDSS) can support policy‐related stakeholders and help them to take evidence‐based decisions. To achieve this objective, we present the user engagement process to ensure broad testing and evaluation of the LS SDSS's ability to support selected EU policies and soil‐related SDGs by testing the LS platform's European scale tools, including an analysis and conformity check of the data delivered by the LS tools and a critical review of results. The indicators were assessed via direct contact with end users, such as semi‐structured interviews (SSI) and 184 questionnaires. Results of the test series have been analyzed by the spatial scale per respective tool and performance indicators. We present a unique, integrated, science‐based approach to co‐create data‐driven decision‐making with the stakeholders to promote sustainable land management practices. This methodology strives to involve many stakeholders in scientific research, empowering them to participate in the decisions on topics that directly affect them. Public bodies responsible for land policy implementation, environmental stakeholders, spatial planners, and other users have engaged in the process to ensure broad testing of the LS platform from 2020 to 2022. A strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis provided a synthesis of the performance of the LS tools. The testing phase proved the utmost importance of usability, underlining that the mixed method of testing allowing quantitative and qualitative analyses based on the same key indicators proved essential for co‐designing SDSS tools to be used by a wide range of stakeholders.

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“…Once the required parameters are set, the whole process will no longer require the users to manually input data year by year, and the ET a results can be calculated automatically and continuously for many years on a regional scale. In addition, the newly developed PySEBS model can be used to calculate crop water productivity [30], which is very useful for land degradation assessment [53].…”

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Developing an Automated Python Surface Energy Balance System (PySEBS) Software for Calculating Actual Evapotranspiration-Software Development and Application Case in Jilin Province, China

Liu

Huang

et al. 2022

Remote Sensing

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In this study, Python Surface Energy Balance System (PySEBS) software was developed in the Python 2.7 programming language for continuous calculation of actual evapotranspiration (ETa) at regional scales. The software is based on the Surface Energy Balance System (SEBS) model, which uses basic meteorological data, MODIS remote sensing data, and Digital Elevation Model (DEM) data as the original input data and finally outputs daily-scale ETa in the form of raster data with a spatial resolution of 1 km × 1 km. To verify the reliability of the PySEBS model, the ETa of spring maize during the growing season in Jilin Province, China, from 2001 to 2020 was calculated and analyzed in this study and compared with the results of similar studies by others. The findings showed that the PySEBS model has a reasonable accuracy in estimating ETa within ±15% and is a robust model that can achieve the continuous calculation of ETa at a regional scale. Therefore, PySEBS software is a useful tool for regional irrigation scheduling and water resources management.

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Evaluation of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 15.3.1 indicator of land degradation in the European Union

Cited by 30 publications

References 60 publications

An Assessment of the Implications of Deforestation and Climate Change on Rural Livelihood in Ghana: A Multidimensional Analysis and Solution-Based Approach

An Assessment of the Implications of Deforestation and Climate Change on Rural Livelihood in Ghana: A Multidimensional Analysis and Solution-Based Approach

A framework for co‐designing decision‐support systems for policy implementation: The LANDSUPPORT experience

Developing an Automated Python Surface Energy Balance System (PySEBS) Software for Calculating Actual Evapotranspiration-Software Development and Application Case in Jilin Province, China

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