PA21C:
Science and the Sustainable Development Goals Posters


Session ID#: 9048

Session Description:
In September this year the United Nations will formally launch its post-2015 development agenda in the form of Sustainable Development Goals. By being universally applicable and focusing on such diverse aspects as climate, food, water, health, urbanization and inequality, the goals seek to address development from a holistic perspective. In that respect they embody recent thinking about the interconnected nature of modern problems. At the same time, the sheer number of goals and targets (17 and 169 respectively) will make their implementation challenging. The scientific community can and should play an important role to provide integrated knowledge and innovative solutions for transformation towards sustainability across local, national and global scales.

 

This session invites contributions that explore how the goals can be effectively implemented by combining monitoring, evaluation and assessment. Contributions that focus on integrative science, the tensions between local and global priorities, and perspectives of developing nations are welcome.

Primary Convener:  Chuluun Togtokh, National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Conveners:  Dennis S Ojima, Colorado State University, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Fort Collins, CO, United States, Toshio Yamagata, JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokohama, Japan and Owen Gaffney, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany
Chairs:  Dennis S Ojima, Colorado State University, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Fort Collins, CO, United States and Chuluun Togtokh, National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
OSPA Liaison:  Owen Gaffney, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany

Cross-Listed:
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • IGBP: International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme -
Index Terms:

1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
6349 General or miscellaneous [POLICY SCIENCES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Handling interactions among SDGs: a critical role for research (Invited) (61151)
Mark Stafford Smith, CSIRO Land and Water Canberra, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Facilitating Progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals through Open Scientific Data and Indicators (76407)
Robert S Chen, Marc A Levy, Alexander M de Sherbinin and Alex Fischer, Columbia University, CIESIN, Palisades, NY, United States
Working towards the SDGs: measuring resilience from a practitioner’s perspective (59159)
Saskia M van Manen, Open University, Milton Keynes, MK7, United Kingdom and Marijn Both, The Netherlands Red Cross, The Hague, Netherlands
Monitoring Water Targets in the Post-2015 Development Goals (79108)
Richard G Lawford, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD, United States
Linking human health, climate change, and food security through ecological-based sanitation systems (76092)
Rebecca Ryals, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Natural Resource and Environmental Management, Honolulu, HI, United States, Sasha Jane Kramer, Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods (SOIL), Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Stephen Porder, Brown University, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Providence, RI, United States and Gary L Andersen, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
Calculation of the Carbon Footprint to Determine Sustainability Status: A Comparative Analysis of Some Selected Planned and Unplanned Areas of Dhaka Megacity (65315)
S. M. Saify Iqbal, MS Student, Geography & Environment, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Spatial Assessment of Forest Ecosystem Functions and Services using Human Relating Factors for SDG (86178)
Cholho Song, Korea University, OJEong Resilience Institute (OJERI), Seoul, South Korea, Woo-Kyun Lee, Korea University, Division of Environmental Science and Ecological Engineering, Seoul, South Korea, Seong Woo Jeon, Korea University, Division of Environmental Science & Ecological Engineering, Seoul, South Korea, Teayeon Kim, Korea University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South) and Chul-Hee Lim, Kookmin University, College of General Education, Seoul, South Korea
Sustainable Phosphorus Management in Land Applied Reclaimed Water Scenarios (86270)
Grant Weinkam, University of Florida, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States

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