Estoque Ronald C
Center for Biodiversity and Climate Change, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8687, Japan.
Sci Total Environ. 2023 Jan 1;854:158612. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.158612. Epub 2022 Sep 8.
Achieving global sustainability is a coupled human-environment system issue that requires resource planning and management that goes beyond siloed thinking. As such, there has been a growing interest in nexus thinking as a way to address global sustainability challenges in an integrated manner. In general, the nexus approach serves as a tool for systems integration, a platform for stakeholder engagement, and a method for exploring development pathways. This review traces the historical origin and progress of the nexus approach and examines the changes in the complexity and diversity of nexuses over time. Since its emergence in the early 1980s, the nexus approach has undergone several phases of development, resulting in more complex and diverse nexuses, whose components can be resource sectors/systems and/or specific social-ecological issues. This progress is favorable for the sustainable development agenda because the more components involved in a nexus, the greater the reality that can be potentially captured. Currently, however, there is still no consensus with regards to the key nexus components that could potentially cover all of the sustainable development goals. The development of frameworks for implementing the nexus approach and the identification of relevant indicators and target values to be used for assessing trade-offs and synergies are among the current issues with regards to the use of the nexus approach in the sustainability context.
实现全球可持续发展是一个人类与环境耦合系统的问题，需要超越孤立思维的资源规划和管理。因此，人们越来越关注关联思维，将其作为一种以综合方式应对全球可持续发展挑战的方法。一般来说，关联方法是系统整合的工具、利益相关者参与的平台以及探索发展路径的方法。本综述追溯了关联方法的历史起源和发展进程，并考察了关联随着时间推移在复杂性和多样性方面的变化。自20世纪80年代初出现以来，关联方法经历了几个发展阶段，产生了更复杂、更多样化的关联，其组成部分可以是资源部门/系统和/或特定的社会生态问题。这一进展有利于可持续发展议程，因为关联涉及的组成部分越多，就越有可能涵盖更多现实情况。然而，目前对于哪些关键关联组成部分可能涵盖所有可持续发展目标尚无共识。在可持续发展背景下使用关联方法时，当前的问题包括制定实施关联方法的框架以及确定用于评估权衡和协同效应的相关指标和目标值。
