Mountain Forests and Sustainable Development: The Potential for Achieving the United Nations' 2030 Agenda

Gratzer, Georg; Keeton, William S.

doi:10.1659/mrd-journal-d-17-00093.1

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“…Like many other nations, Austria has pledged the implementation of the SDGs on a national level [6]. The need for a holistic commitment to the SDGs by integrated policy approaches that respect interdependencies between sustainability challenges was outlined [7][8][9]. To make the extensive SDG package more easily accessible, different clustering approaches were suggested, aiming to reduce the complexities of the original UN framework.…”

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It’s a Hit! Mapping Austrian Research Contributions to the Sustainable Development Goals

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The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) present a global agenda addressing social, economic, and environmental challenges in a holistic approach. Universities can contribute to the implementation of the SDGs by providing know-how and best-practice examples to support implementation and by integrating issues of sustainability into their operations, research, education, and science-society interactions. In most of the signatory countries of the Agenda 2030, an overview of the extent to which universities have already addressed the SDGs in research is not available. Using the example of universities in Austria, this study presents a tool to map research that addresses sustainability topics as defined by the SDGs. The results of an analysis of scientific projects and publications show current focus areas of SDG related research. Research on SDG 3 (Good Health and Well-Being) and SDG 4 (Quality Education) is well represented by universities in Austria, while other SDGs, such as SDG 1 (No Poverty) or SDG 14 (Life Below Water), are under-represented research fields. We anticipate the results will support universities in identifying the thematic orientation of their research in the framework of the SDGs. This information can facilitate inter-university cooperation to address the challenge of implementing the SDGs.

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“…In this perspective, the BES approach offers a ready to use integrated framework already known and applied in sustainability science (Liu et al, ), with observed impacts in all the dimensions of sustainability. As observed by Gratzer and Keeton (), on the one hand, BES management can significantly contribute to achieving the SDGs, on the other, working towards reaching the SDGs will provide a strong lever to solve critical environmental and social problems, promoting a substantial BES management approach. This is also observable through the analysis of our seven practices where a strategic BES management allowed to generate positive impacts on multiple goals in all the three dimensions of development.…”

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Embedding biodiversity and ecosystem services in corporate sustainability: A strategy to enable Sustainable Development Goals

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The Sustainable Development Goals are a powerful lever to mainstream sustainability priorities in business' strategies and operations. At the same time, a new corporate sustainability based on a strategic understanding and management of biodiversity and ecosystem services is key to enact the new agenda for development. With the aim to better understand how businesses can operationalize the Agenda 2030, authors adopt a transdisciplinary approach and carry out an analysis of selected Italian business practices focused on biodiversity and ecosystem services management. Through a content analysis method and with the contribution of practitioners and experts, the main impacts of the practices have then been reconciled with the new framework for development. Finally, from primary data collected and further supported by semistructured interviews with company representatives (sustainability and environmental departments), authors propose a conceptual model that connects strategic biodiversity and ecosystem services management, its drivers and barriers, with the Sustainable Development Goals.

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“…The local population not only changed from out-migration to in-migration, but also the business development empowers women in the local society. Traditional gender roles limited women to participate in labor intensive forest management (Gratzer & Keeton, 2017), such as managing Chinese torreya forests or picking up fruits. However, currently the development related to cultural activities, eco-tourism, service, and less labor intensive jobs is greatly changing the inequality between men and women.…”

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“…Agriculture is mainly to provide sufficient food for the growing human population, which is predicted to require an increase of global food about 60~110% by 2050 (Foley et al, 2005;Pardey, Beddow, Hurley, Beatty, & Eidman, 2014). In mountainous areas, more people experienced food insecurity and poverty than at lowland areas due to limited agricultural land (Gratzer & Keeton, 2017). However, agriculture is also the largest driver of global environmental change, such as biodiversity loss, water pollution and emissions of greenhouse gases (Tilman et al, 2001;Foley et al, 2005;Steffen, Crutzen, & McNeil, 2007).…”

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A Case Study of Enhancing Sustainable Intensification of Chinese Torreya Forest in Zhuji of China

Chen¹,

Jin²

2019

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Chinese torreya (Torreya grandis cv. Merrillii) is an important cash tree in southeastern China and this species plays a major role in local economy. Establishing new plantations of Chinese torreya would be necessary in order to receive more economic benefit. However, expanding the area of torreya plantations would conflict with other land-use and also affect regional biodiversity. Under this context, local people and government made a paradigm shift from nuts productivity to sustainable practices. They explored the multi-functionalities of Chinese torreya forests, such as the social, cultural, environmental and health functionalities, and developed ecotourism as a breakthrough. The development of multi-functionalities of torreya plantations greatly improved the local economy and led a success in the local society. The strategy of this case completely followed the principles of sustainable intensification of agriculture and translational ecology, which involve scientists, stakeholders and policy makers to emphasize landscape multi-functionalities and minimize environmental impacts of operations. The knowledge from this study may be helpful to research in other regions.

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Mountain Forests and Sustainable Development: The Potential for Achieving the United Nations' 2030 Agenda

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Cited by 58 publications

References 34 publications

It’s a Hit! Mapping Austrian Research Contributions to the Sustainable Development Goals

It’s a Hit! Mapping Austrian Research Contributions to the Sustainable Development Goals

Embedding biodiversity and ecosystem services in corporate sustainability: A strategy to enable Sustainable Development Goals

A Case Study of Enhancing Sustainable Intensification of Chinese Torreya Forest in Zhuji of China

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