Geospatial Information for Sustainable Development

2009 ◽  
pp. 395-411 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yeqiao Wang ◽  
James Tobey ◽  
Amani Ngusaru ◽  
Vedast Makota ◽  
Gregory Bonynge ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Geospatial Information

scholarly journals A Sustainable world with cartography

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 1-1
Author(s):  
Ayako Kagawa ◽  
Kyoung-Soo Eom
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Information Management ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Global Community ◽  
Geospatial Information ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Development Agenda ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
The United Nations

<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development or also known as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is the new global paradigm and blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all. To collectively achieve the SDGs, the global community agreed on 17 Goals as a baseline framework to measure and monitor its growth. How to measure and monitor development progress by countries has been a long-standing debate since the era of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in the 2000s but with the establishment of Inter-Agency and Expert Group on SDG Indicators (IAEG-SDGs), the SDGs have a clearer framework on how to monitor progress and the global community are grappling on how to effectively collect, analyse, visualise and report their successes.</p><p>Within the United Nations, there is the desire to elaborate collectively principles and tools on how best to report the SDGs at country and local level as its success lies in the ownership and accountability at all levels. The Secretary-General of the United Nations is looking into how technologies can accelerate the SDGs and to facilitate the alignments with the values enshrined in the United Nations Charter, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the norms and standards of International Laws.</p><p>In this paradigm, what should be the role of cartographers and geospatial information management experts to ensure how maps and geospatial information can be effectively used by the global community to communicate their challenges and successes from planning to implementing, monitoring, analysing, visualising and reporting on sustainable development? This paper argues the importance of understanding the challenges, asking questions to the policy makers, sharing best practices and building a consensus on the issues surrounding the SDGs before demonstrating the diverse cartographic skills available to design and communicate the intended message better. Hence, the importance of context has never changed and provides the cartographic and geospatial information management community an opportunity to demonstrate the potential and to provide effective support through cartography for the accomplishment of the sustainable development agenda.</p>

Building an Environmental GIS Knowledge Infrastructure

2009 ◽  
pp. 778-796
Author(s):  
Inya Nlenanya
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Knowledge Discovery ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Conceptual Knowledge ◽  
Geographic Information ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Geospatial Information ◽  
Knowledge Infrastructure ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Effective Use

Technologies such as geographic information systems (GIS) enable geospatial information to be captured, updated, integrated, and mapped easily and economically. These technologies create both opportunities and challenges for achieving wider and more effective use of geospatial information in stimulating and sustaining sustainable development through smart policy making. This chapter proposes a simple and accessible conceptual knowledge discovery interface that can be used as a tool to accomplish that. In addition, it addresses some issues that might make this knowledge infrastructure stimulate sustainable development with emphasis on sub-Saharan Africa.

scholarly journals Seeing the UN Sustainable Development Goals through Maps

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
Menno-Jan Kraak ◽  
Britta Ricker ◽  
Robert Roth
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Geospatial Information ◽  
University Of Wisconsin ◽  
Data Policy ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
The University

<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> Purpose: In this presentation, we announce a book project to map the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The book project is a collaboration between the UN Cartographic Unit, Geospatial Information Section, and the International Cartographic Association (ICA), with layout and production completed by the University of Wisconsin Cartography Lab. The book provides a visual primer on basic and advanced cartographic design principles, demonstrating the power of mapping to engage with persistent social, economic, and environmental inequities while also illustrating the potential of maps to mislead and therefore reinforce these inequities. Target audiences include: policymakers and researchers collecting geospatial information on SDG indicators to improve data policy and products; analysts and designers utilizing geospatial information to improve maps and graphics of the SDGs; and the general public to promote awareness and dialogue about the most pressing challenges facing our planet. In the following, we describe background on the SDGs, book organization, and development process.</p>

scholarly journals TASK AND PROGRESS OF IAEG-SDGS: WGGI IN MONITORING SDGS THROUGH A ‘GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION’ LENS

2018 ◽  
Vol XLII-3 ◽  
pp. 385-390 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Geng ◽  
J. Chen ◽  
H. P. Zhang ◽  
K. Xu
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Working Group ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Geographic Location ◽  
Geospatial Information ◽  
Existing Problems ◽  
2030 Agenda ◽  
Indicator Framework ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Global Indicator

In September 2015, the 193 Member States of the United Nations (UN) unanimously adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), aiming to transform the world over the next 15 years (ESDN, 2016). To meet the ambitions and demands of the 2030 Agenda, it is necessary for the global indicator framework to adequately and systematically address the issue of alternative data sources and methodologies, including geospatial information and Earth observations in the context of geographic location (UN-GGIM, 2016). For this purpose, the Inter-Agency and Expert Group on Sustainable Development Goals Indicator (IAEG-SDGs) created the Working Group on Geospatial Information (IAEG-SDGs: WGGI) to give full play to the role of geospatial data in SDGs measurement and monitoring. The Working Group reviewed global indicators through a ‘geographic location’ lens to pick out those which geospatial information can significantly support the production, and analyzed the methodological and measurements issues. This paper has discussed the progress in monitoring SDGs ever since the establishment of IAEG-SDGs: WGGI, as well as the existing problems, appropriate solutions and plans for the next stage of work.

scholarly journals Geospatial Evaluation of Sustainable Development: Analysing a Sample of a Successful Social Safety Net

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Giribabu Dandabathula ◽  
Sudhakar Ch. Reddy ◽  
Chandrika Mohapatra ◽  
Peddineni V.V Prasada Rao
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Water Conservation ◽  
Remote Sensing Data ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
Public Works ◽  
Geospatial Information ◽  
Grass Root ◽  
Grass Root Level ◽  
Poverty Elimination ◽  
The Government

Sustainable Development (SD) not only ensures addressing the root cause of poverty but also helps in achieving the wellness of society. Protecting the natural resources for current and future generations is the main goal of the SD process. In recent times, developing countries have initiated social safety nets (SSNs) for poverty elimination and to achieve the SD goals through public works. The Government of India has initiated numerous development projects aimed to achieve SD and Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) is one of them. The research objective of this article is to harness the power of geospatial technology for evaluating the public works under MGNREGA at a district level. The proposed research method utilizes the power of remote sensing data with a very high spatial and temporal resolution to monitor the development activities at the grass root level. Satellite based land-use maps, indices, and publicly available web based geospatial information systems have been used in this investigation to assess the changes that have occurred due to the community-level planned activities. The findings from this research confirm that MGNREGA has the potential to accrue multiple dividends at all the three pillars of SD, i.e., economic development, social development, and environmental protection. It was proved from this research that public works under MGNREGA besides providing the wage based employment to the beneficiaries resulted in improved water conservation and harvesting facilities in the study area and in return, these facilities acted as a catalyst for improved agricultural productivity.

scholarly journals The Future We Want: A Learning Experience to Promote SDGs in Higher Education from the United Nations and University of Valencia

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (15) ◽  
pp. 8550
Author(s):  
Victoria Vázquez-Verdera ◽  
Juan Domingo ◽  
Esther Dura ◽  
Daniel Gabaldón-Estevan ◽  
Ernesto López-Baeza ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Social Progress ◽  
Geospatial Information ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
The Future ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The University

This article shares the strategy for mainstreaming the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at the University of Valencia (UV), which, although limited in its scale, may compel other Higher Education Institutions to think in technological and social progress aligned with the 2030 Agenda. It explicates a process driven by the UV, on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the United Nations (UN), and in collaboration with the Service for Geospatial, Information, and Telecommunications Technologies from the UN Support Base in Valencia (Spain) to prepare the online event: “The United Nations We Want”. It was the culmination of a collaborative project between students and faculties from different scientific, technological, social, legal, humanistic, and health disciplines that structure the University of Valencia. The intention was that new generations experience the role they can have to shape the future we want, while the university community as a whole can become part of transformative institutional change that draws on both top-down and bottom-up strategies in pursuit of Education for Sustainable Development.

scholarly journals Quantum Leap in Cartography as a requirement of Sustainable Development of the World

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Vladimir S. Tikunov ◽  
Iryna N. Tikunova ◽  
Eugene N. Eremchenko
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Situational Awareness ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Google Earth ◽  
Geospatial Information ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Digital Earth ◽  
Quantum Leap ◽  
Effective Decision Making

Sustainable development is one of the most important challenges for humanity and one of the priorities of the United Nations. Achieving sustainability of the whole World is a main goal of management at all levels &amp;ndash; from personal to local to global. Therefore, decision making should be supported by relevant geospatial information system. Nevertheless, classical geospatial products, maps and GIS, violate fundamental demand of ‘situational awareness’ concept, well-known philosophy of decision-making &amp;ndash; same representation of situation within a same volume of time and space for all decision-makers. Basic mapping principles like generalization and projections split the universal single model of situation on number of different separate and inconsistent replicas. It leads to wrong understanding of situation and, after all &amp;ndash; to incorrect decisions. In another words, quality of the sustainable development depends on effective decision-making support based on universal global scale-independent and projection-independent model. This new way for interacting with geospatial information is a quantum leap in cartography method. It is implemented in the so-called ‘Digital Earth’ paradigm and geospatial services like Google Earth. Com-paring of both methods, as well as possibilities of implementation of Digital Earth in the sustain-able development activities, are discussed.

scholarly journals PREFACE &#8211; ISPRS and GEO workshop on Geospatially-enabled SDGs Monitoring for the 2030 Agenda

2019 ◽  
Vol XLII-4/W20 ◽  
pp. 1-1
Author(s):  
H. Wu ◽  
X. G. Zhou ◽  
D. Y. Hou
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Land Cover ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Critical Issue ◽  
Geospatial Data ◽  
Geospatial Information ◽  
2030 Agenda ◽  
Global Mapping ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Combat Climate Change

Abstract. In September 2015, the United Nations adopted “Transforming Our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development” as a new ambitious global development plan to end extreme poverty, fight inequality and injustice, and combat climate change. Comprising 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with 169 associated targets, the agenda recognizes the complex and diverse challenges that the world of today faces. It has been proposed by the United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM) that it is impossible to measure and monitor the SDGs without the use of accurate, reliable and up-to-date geospatial data. Therefore, establishing a dynamic SDGs monitoring mechanism based on geospatial data is a critical issue for international communities.This ISPRS and GEO workshop aimed at providing a focus forum to discuss the opportunities and challenges of geospatial-enabled SDGs monitoring (GI4SDGs), to present the recent R&amp;D progress on relevant topics (including global mapping and collaborative crowd-sourced cloud mapping), and to explore future collaborations. The workshop was organized in conjunction with ISPRS IC WG IV/III (Global mapping: updating, verification and interoperability), ISPRS WG IV/4 (Collaborative Crowdsourced Cloud Mapping), GEO Community Activity (Land Cover and Land Cover Change), Central South University and National Geomatics Center of China.The workshop received 26 submissions, which were all reviewed by the scientific and organizing committees. According to the review results, 17 full papers were accepted and published in ISPRS Archives. There were 28 oral presentations including invited presentations in the workshop. We hope these contributions would trigger new interesting ideas or solutions for monitoring the SDGs with geospatial data in the near future.At last, we cordially thank all the authors/speakers for their contributions and all reviewers for their constructive and valuable comments.

scholarly journals A Review of Geospatial Information of Carbon Stocks for Forestry Management, Environmental Protection and Spatial Planning: A Case Study of Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia

Land Science ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. p34
Author(s):  
Laode Muhammad Golok Jaya
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Spatial Planning ◽  
Carbon Stocks ◽  
Geospatial Information ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Forestry Management

Climate change and the global warming have become an important issue at the present. Some of previous research showed the importance of studies on the sources of global warming and carbon emissions. Our attention needs to be paid to carbon monitoring worldwide. Therefore, the information about the distribution and the characteristic of carbon stocks has become very strategic matter particularly for sustainable development. This paper aims to analyze the utilization of Geospatial Information of Carbon Stocks (GICS) for forestry management, environmental protection, and spatial planning with the case study in Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia. The method was descriptive analytic to compose several regulations related to geospatial data and information and their connetion to forestry management in Indonesia, environmental protection, and spatial planning. The results of the analysis showed that the principle of sustainable development must be supported by accurate data and information in accordance with the objectives of sustainable development. For the sustainable development, the GICS is functioning in the Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) and Low-Emission Development Strategy (LEDS).

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