Integration and Diffusion in Sustainable Development Goals: Learning from the Past, Looking into the Future

Sustainability

Norichika Kanie⁶  Naoya Abe⁴  Masahiko Iguchi⁶  Jue Yang⁷  Ngeta Kabiri¹  Yuto Kitamura⁵  Shunsuke Mangagi⁷  Ikuho Miyazawa⁸  Simon Olsen⁸  Tomohiro Tasaki³  Taro Yamamoto²  Tetsuro Yoshida⁸ 

[1] The United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies (UNU-IAS), Pacifico-Yokohama, 1-1-1 Minato Mirai, Nishi-ku, Yokohama 220-8502, Japan; E-Mail:;Department of International Health, The Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University, 1-12-4 Sakamoto, Nagasaki 852-8523, Japan; E-Mail:;National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), 16-2 Onogawa, Tsukuba-City, Ibaraki 305-8506, Japan; E-Mail:;Department of International Development and Engineering (IDE), Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 14-4, 2-12-1, Ookayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8552, Japan; E-Mail:;Graduate School of Education, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan; E-Mail:;Department of Value and Decision Science, Graduate School of Decision Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1-W9-43 Ookayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8552, Japan; E-Mails:;Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Tohoku University, 6-6-20 Aramaki-Aza-Aoba, Aoba, Sendai 980-8579, Japan; E-Mails:;Integrated Policies for Sustainable Societies Area, IGES 2108-11 Kamiyamaguchi, Hayama, Kanagawa 240-0115, Japan; E-Mails:

关键词: post-2015 Development Agenda;    Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs);    human well-being;    planetary well-being;   

DOI  :  10.3390/su6041761

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

One of the next major challenges for research and policy on sustainability is setting the post-2015 Development Agenda. This challenge arises as a direct result of the formal ending of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2015 and as an outcome of the 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20). The post-2015 Development Agenda is expected to include two agendas: one on human well-being to advance the MDG targets and the other on planetary well-being, which requires a safe “operating space” within the Earth’s life-support system. In contrast to the MDGs, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are meant to apply to both developing and developed countries and create a space for development within the stable functioning of the Earth’s systems. However, what might this all look like? For answers, this paper reviews the achievements and reflections of the MDGs to date and identifies new challenges entailed in the shift of development goals from “millennium” to “sustainable”. While most of the existing studies look at these two sets of issues separately, combining the two reveals two important features of the SDGs. First, SDGs need to integrate both human and planetary well-being in a goal, and second, goals, or sub-goals, need to be formulated at multiple levels, from global to local levels. While the MDGs represented no integrated goals, some of the existing proposals on SDGs include integrated goals. However, our analysis has shown that they do not present the vertical diffusion of goals. Considering both integration and diffusion in the architecture of SDGs is a remaining task.

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