Development and Evaluation of Options for Action to Progress on the SDG 6 Targets in Austria. (1st January 2023)
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- Journal Article
- Title:
- Development and Evaluation of Options for Action to Progress on the SDG 6 Targets in Austria. (1st January 2023)
- Main Title:
- Development and Evaluation of Options for Action to Progress on the SDG 6 Targets in Austria
- Authors:
- Germann, Verena
Borgwardt, Florian
Fischer, Jörg
Fuchs-Hanusch, Daniela
Regelsberger, Martin
Schubert, Gerhard
Uhmann, Annett
Langergraber, Günter - Abstract:
- Abstract: The Agenda 2030 of the United Nations stipulates an ambitious set of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). They were globally agreed upon and demand coherent, context-specific implementation at the national level. To address the complexity of challenges therein, the Agenda is designed to be integrated, indivisible, and universal. The numerous multifaceted interactions in-between the SDGs and with corresponding measures pose a complex challenge for decision-makers implementing them worldwide that requires support for a comprehensive discourse in the science-society-policy arena. Research on the interactions between the SDGs has been flourishing and can help to understand where policy options might be most successfully located. A catalytic effect on several other goals is, e.g., often attributed to SDG 6 on water and sanitation. However, beyond the where to locate policy options, it is similarly important to understand how potential policy options would affect the SDGs and their targets. We developed eleven options and 85 measures as context-specific pathways to advance the SDG 6 Targets in Austria. As a country in the Global North and with a generally far-established water and sanitation infrastructure and management, this responds to the Agenda's demand for universal applicability and can serve as an example to illustrate potential challenges beyond basic infrastructure provision and management. The proposed options cover resources-oriented sanitation,Abstract: The Agenda 2030 of the United Nations stipulates an ambitious set of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). They were globally agreed upon and demand coherent, context-specific implementation at the national level. To address the complexity of challenges therein, the Agenda is designed to be integrated, indivisible, and universal. The numerous multifaceted interactions in-between the SDGs and with corresponding measures pose a complex challenge for decision-makers implementing them worldwide that requires support for a comprehensive discourse in the science-society-policy arena. Research on the interactions between the SDGs has been flourishing and can help to understand where policy options might be most successfully located. A catalytic effect on several other goals is, e.g., often attributed to SDG 6 on water and sanitation. However, beyond the where to locate policy options, it is similarly important to understand how potential policy options would affect the SDGs and their targets. We developed eleven options and 85 measures as context-specific pathways to advance the SDG 6 Targets in Austria. As a country in the Global North and with a generally far-established water and sanitation infrastructure and management, this responds to the Agenda's demand for universal applicability and can serve as an example to illustrate potential challenges beyond basic infrastructure provision and management. The proposed options cover resources-oriented sanitation, blue-green-brown infrastructure, efficient use and integrated management of water resources, maintenance and restoration of ecological functions of inland waters, reduction of diffuse discharge of nutrients and problematic substances as well as trace substances, water, sanitation and hygiene in public spaces, groundwater protection, development cooperation as well as co-design and co-creation. Their effects on the SDG 6 Targets are evaluated using a 7-point-scale. The evaluation method is simple and practicable, and fosters discourse on the entire water cycle amongst the expert group applying the method. The evaluated effects on the targets are found to be unanimously positive or neutral, but trade-offs might arise when including other SDGs in the assessment, making an expansion of the evaluation necessary for coherent implementation. The results can be used as a baseline to support follow-up discussions with stakeholders and decision-makers. Graphical abstract: Image 1 Highlights: Eleven options and 85 measures illustrate context-specific ways to advance SDG 6. The evaluation method is simple, practicable, and fosters a holistic discourse. The evaluated effects on the targets are unanimously positive or neutral. The results can propose a baseline for follow-up discussions with stakeholders. Effects on other SDG targets and interactions within targets should be included. … (more)
- Is Part Of:
- Journal of environmental management. Volume 325:Part B(2023)
- Journal:
- Journal of environmental management
- Issue:
- Volume 325:Part B(2023)
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- Volume 325, Issue B (2023)
- Year:
- 2023
- Volume:
- 325
- Issue:
- B
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2023-0325-NaN-0000
- Page Start:
- Page End:
- Publication Date:
- 2023-01-01
- Subjects:
- Context-specific implementation -- Measures for action -- Agenda 2030 -- Freshwater -- Sustainability -- Decision-making support
SDG Sustainable Development Goal -- MDG Millenium Development Goal -- UN United Nations -- WASH water, sanitation and hygiene -- HEI higher education institutions -- UniNEtZ Universitäten und nachhaltige Entwicklungsziele (translation: Universities and Sustainable Development Goals) -- IWRM integrated water resources management -- ROS resources-oriented sanitation -- NBS nature-based solutions -- BGBI Blue-Green-Brown Infrastructure -- WWT wastewater treatment -- WFD (EU) Water Framework Directive -- LNOB Leave no one behind -- ODA Official Development Assistance -- MoI Means of implementation
Environmental policy -- Periodicals
Environmental management -- Periodicals
Environment -- Periodicals
Ecology -- Periodicals
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http://firstsearch.oclc.org ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.116487 ↗
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- English
- ISSNs:
- 0301-4797
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