Water (Mar 2019)
Priorities and Interactions of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with Focus on Wetlands
- Fernando Jaramillo,
- Amanda Desormeaux,
- Johanna Hedlund,
- James W. Jawitz,
- Nicola Clerici,
- Luigi Piemontese,
- Jenny Alexandra Rodríguez-Rodriguez,
- Jesús Adolfo Anaya,
- Juan F. Blanco-Libreros,
- Sonia Borja,
- Jorge Celi,
- Sergey Chalov,
- Kwok Pan Chun,
- Matilda Cresso,
- Georgia Destouni,
- Shimelis Behailu Dessu,
- Giuliano Di Baldassarre,
- Andrea Downing,
- Luisa Espinosa,
- Navid Ghajarnia,
- Pierre Girard,
- Álvaro G. Gutiérrez,
- Amy Hansen,
- Tengfei Hu,
- Jerker Jarsjö,
- Zahra Kalantary,
- Adnane Labbaci,
- Lucia Licero-Villanueva,
- John Livsey,
- Ewa Machotka,
- Kathryn McCurley,
- Sebastián Palomino-Ángel,
- Jan Pietron,
- René Price,
- Sorain J. Ramchunder,
- Constanza Ricaurte-Villota,
- Luisa Fernanda Ricaurte,
- Lula Dahir,
- Erasmo Rodríguez,
- Jorge Salgado,
- A. Britta K. Sannel,
- Ana Carolina Santos,
- Samaneh Seifollahi-Aghmiuni,
- Ylva Sjöberg,
- Lian Sun,
- Josefin Thorslund,
- Guillaume Vigouroux,
- Lan Wang-Erlandsson,
- Diandian Xu,
- David Zamora,
- Alan D. Ziegler,
- Imenne Åhlén
Affiliations
- Fernando Jaramillo
- Department of Physical Geography and Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm University, SE–106 91, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden
- Amanda Desormeaux
- Soil and Water Sciences Department, University of Florida, 2191, McCarty Hall, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
- Johanna Hedlund
- Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden
- James W. Jawitz
- Soil and Water Sciences Department, University of Florida, 2191, McCarty Hall, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
- Nicola Clerici
- Biology Program, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Universidad del Rosario, Kr 26 No 63B-48, 111221 Bogotá D.C., Colombia
- Luigi Piemontese
- Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden
- Jenny Alexandra Rodríguez-Rodriguez
- Instituto de investigaciones marinas y costeras de Colombia “José Benito Vives de Andreis”—INVEMAR, 470006 Santa Marta, Colombia
- Jesús Adolfo Anaya
- Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad de Medellín, Carrera 87 N ° 30–65, 050026 Medellín, Colombia
- Juan F. Blanco-Libreros
- Instituto de Biología, Universidad de Antioquia, 050010 Medellín, Colombia
- Sonia Borja
- Department of Physical Geography and Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm University, SE–106 91, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden
- Jorge Celi
- Grupo de Investigación de Recursos Hídricos y Acuáticos, Universidad Regional Amazónica IKIAM, 150150 Tena Kilómetro 7, vía Muyuna, Atacapi, Ecuador
- Sergey Chalov
- Faculty of Geography; Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119571 Moscow, Russia
- Kwok Pan Chun
- Department of Geography, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong HKSAR
- Matilda Cresso
- Department of Physical Geography and Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm University, SE–106 91, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden
- Georgia Destouni
- Department of Physical Geography and Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm University, SE–106 91, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden
- Shimelis Behailu Dessu
- Southeast Environmental Research Center, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199, USA
- Giuliano Di Baldassarre
- Centre of Natural Hazards and Disaster Science, CNDS, Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, 752 36 Uppsala, Sweden
- Andrea Downing
- Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden
- Luisa Espinosa
- Instituto de investigaciones marinas y costeras de Colombia “José Benito Vives de Andreis”—INVEMAR, 470006 Santa Marta, Colombia
- Navid Ghajarnia
- Department of Physical Geography and Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm University, SE–106 91, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden
- Pierre Girard
- Departamento de Botânica e Ecologia, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso (UFMT) and Centro de Pesquisa do Pantanal, 78060-900 Cuiabá-MT, Brazil
- Álvaro G. Gutiérrez
- Departamento de Ciencias Ambientales y Recursos Naturales Renovables, Facultad de Ciencias Agronómicas, Universidad de Chile, 8820808 Santiago, Chile
- Amy Hansen
- Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering Department, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA
- Tengfei Hu
- Hydrology and Water Resources Department, Nanjing Hydraulic Research Institute, 210029 Nanjing, China
- Jerker Jarsjö
- Department of Physical Geography and Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm University, SE–106 91, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden
- Zahra Kalantary
- Department of Physical Geography and Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm University, SE–106 91, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden
- Adnane Labbaci
- Faculty of Sciences, Ibn Zohr University, 80000 Agadir, Morocco
- Lucia Licero-Villanueva
- Instituto de investigaciones marinas y costeras de Colombia “José Benito Vives de Andreis”—INVEMAR, 470006 Santa Marta, Colombia
- John Livsey
- Department of Physical Geography and Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm University, SE–106 91, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden
- Ewa Machotka
- Department of Asian, Middle Eastern and Turkish Studies, Stockholm University, SE–106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
- Kathryn McCurley
- Soil and Water Sciences Department, University of Florida, 2191, McCarty Hall, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
- Sebastián Palomino-Ángel
- Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad de Medellín, Carrera 87 N ° 30–65, 050026 Medellín, Colombia
- Jan Pietron
- Department of Physical Geography and Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm University, SE–106 91, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden
- René Price
- Southeast Environmental Research Center, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199, USA
- Sorain J. Ramchunder
- Geography Department, National University of Singapore, Singapore 119077, Singapore
- Constanza Ricaurte-Villota
- Instituto de investigaciones marinas y costeras de Colombia “José Benito Vives de Andreis”—INVEMAR, 470006 Santa Marta, Colombia
- Luisa Fernanda Ricaurte
- Independent consultant, 8000 Zurich, Switzerland
- Lula Dahir
- Independent consultant, 111 22 Stockholm, Sweden
- Erasmo Rodríguez
- Civil and Agricultural Department, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá 11001, Colombia
- Jorge Salgado
- Grupo de Palinología y Paleoecología Tropical, Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá 111711, Colombia; Universidad Católica de Colombia, Bogotá 111311, Colombia
- A. Britta K. Sannel
- Department of Physical Geography and Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm University, SE–106 91, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden
- Ana Carolina Santos
- Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt, Bogotá 111311, Colombia
- Samaneh Seifollahi-Aghmiuni
- Department of Physical Geography and Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm University, SE–106 91, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden
- Ylva Sjöberg
- Department of Physical Geography and Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm University, SE–106 91, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden
- Lian Sun
- Department of Physical Geography and Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm University, SE–106 91, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden
- Josefin Thorslund
- Department of Physical Geography and Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm University, SE–106 91, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden
- Guillaume Vigouroux
- Department of Physical Geography and Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm University, SE–106 91, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden
- Lan Wang-Erlandsson
- Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden
- Diandian Xu
- Department of Physical Geography and Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm University, SE–106 91, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden
- David Zamora
- Civil and Agricultural Department, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá 11001, Colombia
- Alan D. Ziegler
- Geography Department, National University of Singapore, Singapore 119077, Singapore
- Imenne Åhlén
- Department of Physical Geography and Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm University, SE–106 91, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3390/w11030619
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 11,
no. 3
p. 619
Abstract
Wetlands are often vital physical and social components of a country’s natural capital, as well as providers of ecosystem services to local and national communities. We performed a network analysis to prioritize Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) targets for sustainable development in iconic wetlands and wetlandscapes around the world. The analysis was based on the information and perceptions on 45 wetlandscapes worldwide by 49 wetland researchers of the Global Wetland Ecohydrological Network (GWEN). We identified three 2030 Agenda targets of high priority across the wetlandscapes needed to achieve sustainable development: Target 6.3—“Improve water quality„; 2.4—“Sustainable food production„; and 12.2—“Sustainable management of resources„. Moreover, we found specific feedback mechanisms and synergies between SDG targets in the context of wetlands. The most consistent reinforcing interactions were the influence of Target 12.2 on 8.4—“Efficient resource consumption„; and that of Target 6.3 on 12.2. The wetlandscapes could be differentiated in four bundles of distinctive priority SDG-targets: “Basic human needs„, “Sustainable tourism„, “Environmental impact in urban wetlands„, and “Improving and conserving environment„. In general, we find that the SDG groups, targets, and interactions stress that maintaining good water quality and a “wise use„ of wetlandscapes are vital to attaining sustainable development within these sensitive ecosystems.
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