Szetey Katrina, Moallemi Enayat A, Ashton Emma, Butcher Martin, Sprunt Beth, Bryan Brett A
Centre for Integrative Ecology, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University, Melbourne, 3125 Australia.
Designing Systems for Informed Resilience Engineering, The 4TU Centre for Resilience Engineering, Enschede, The Netherlands.
Sustain Sci. 2021;16(4):1251-1268. doi: 10.1007/s11625-021-00921-2. Epub 2021 Mar 14.
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) recognise the importance of action across all scales to achieve a sustainable future. To contribute to overall national- and global-scale SDG achievement, local communities need to focus on a locally-relevant subset of goals and understand potential future pathways for key drivers which influence local sustainability. We developed a participatory method to co-create local socioeconomic pathways by downscaling the SDGs and driving forces of the shared socioeconomic pathways (SSPs) via a local case study in southern Australia through contextual analysis and community engagement. We linked the SSPs and SDGs by identifying driving forces and describing how they affect the achievement of local SDGs. We co-created six local socioeconomic pathways with the local community which track towards futures with different levels of fulfilment of the SDGs and each encompasses a narrative storyline incorporating locally-specific ideas from the community. We tested and validated the local pathways with the community. This method extends the SSPs in two dimensions-into the broader field of sustainability via the SDGs, and by recontextualizing them at the local scale. The local socioeconomic pathways can contribute to achieving local sustainability goals from the bottom up in alignment with global initiatives.
可持续发展目标（SDGs）认识到在所有层面采取行动对于实现可持续未来的重要性。为推动国家和全球层面的整体可持续发展目标的实现，地方社区需要关注与当地相关的目标子集，并了解影响地方可持续性的关键驱动因素的潜在未来路径。我们通过在澳大利亚南部进行的一个地方案例研究，采用情境分析和社区参与的方式，将可持续发展目标和共享社会经济路径（SSPs）的驱动力进行细化，从而开发出一种参与式方法，共同创建地方社会经济路径。我们通过识别驱动力并描述其如何影响地方可持续发展目标的实现，将共享社会经济路径与可持续发展目标联系起来。我们与当地社区共同创建了六条地方社会经济路径，这些路径描绘了朝着可持续发展目标实现程度不同的未来发展轨迹，每条路径都包含一个融入了社区特定想法的叙事性故事线。我们与社区一起对这些地方路径进行了测试和验证。这种方法在两个维度上扩展了共享社会经济路径——通过可持续发展目标将其扩展到更广泛的可持续发展领域，并在地方层面重新构建其背景。地方社会经济路径能够自下而上地助力实现地方可持续发展目标，与全球倡议保持一致。
