Environmental Waste Sustainability: Organic Valorisation and Socioeconomic Benefits Towards Sustainable Development in Ghana

Sustainable Policies and Practices in Energy, Environment and Health Research - World Sustainability Series ◽

10.1007/978-3-030-86304-3_24 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 425-437

Author(s):

Justice Kofi Debrah ◽

Diogo Guedes Vidal ◽

Maria Alzira Pimenta Dinis

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Socioeconomic Benefits

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Application of Geospatial Methods in Evaluating Environmental Interventions and Related Socioeconomic Benefits

Transformational Change for People and the Planet - Sustainable Development Goals Series ◽

10.1007/978-3-030-78853-7_19 ◽

2022 ◽

pp. 275-289

Author(s):

Anupam Anand ◽

Geeta Batra

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Sustainable Development ◽

Critical Role ◽

Geospatial Information ◽

Environmental Interventions ◽

Global Environment Facility ◽

The Sustainable Development ◽

Efficiency And Effectiveness ◽

Using Data ◽

Socioeconomic Benefits

AbstractEnvironmental interventions underpin the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Rio Conventions. The SDGs are integrated and embody all three aspects of sustainable development—environmental, social, and economic—to capture the interlinkages among the three areas. The Rio Conventions—on biodiversity, climate change, and desertification, also intrinsically linked—operate in the same ecosystems and address interdependent issues, and represent a way of contributing to the SDGs. Assessing the results of environmental interventions and the related socioeconomic benefits is challenging due to their complexity, interlinkages, and often limited data. The COVID-19 crisis has also necessitated creativity to ensure that evaluation’s critical role continues during the crisis. Satellite and other geospatial information, combined with existing survey data, leverage open-source and readily available data to determine the impact of projects. Working with geospatial data helps maintain flexibility and can fill data gaps without designing new and often expensive data tools for every unique evaluation. Using data on interventions implemented by the Global Environment Facility in biodiversity, land degradation, and climate change, we present the application of geospatial approaches to evaluate the relevance, efficiency, and effectiveness of interventions in terms of their environmental outcomes and observable socioeconomic and health co-benefits.

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Invasive vertebrate eradications on islands as a tool for implementing global Sustainable Development Goals

Environmental Conservation ◽

10.1017/s0376892920000211 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 47 (3) ◽

pp. 139-148

Author(s):

Luz A de Wit ◽

Kelly M Zilliacus ◽

Paulo Quadri ◽

David Will ◽

Nelson Grima ◽

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Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Biodiversity Conservation ◽

Sustainable Development Goals ◽

Conservation Action ◽

Global Partnerships ◽

Development Agenda ◽

Production And Consumption ◽

Development Goals ◽

Terrestrial Biodiversity ◽

Socioeconomic Benefits

SummaryThe United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development sets a framework of universal Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to address challenges to society and the planet. Island invasive species eradications have well-documented benefits that clearly align with biodiversity conservation-related SDGs, yet the value of this conservation action for socioeconomic benefits is less clear. We examine the potential for island invasive vertebrate eradications to have ecological and socioeconomic benefits. Specifically, we examine: (1) how SDGs may have been achieved through past eradications; and (2) how planned future eradications align with SDGs and associated targets. We found invasive vertebrate eradication to align with 13 SDGs and 42 associated targets encompassing marine and terrestrial biodiversity conservation, promotion of local and global partnerships, economic development, climate change mitigation, human health and sanitation and sustainable production and consumption. Past eradications on 794 islands aligned with a median of 17 targets (range 13–38) by island. Potential future eradications on 292 highly biodiverse islands could align with a median of 25 SDG targets (range 15–39) by island. This analysis enables the global community to explicitly describe the contributions that invasive vertebrate management on islands can make towards implementing the global sustainable development agenda.

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