Assessing the land resource-food price nexus of the Sustainable Development Goals.

ABSTRACT: The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) call for a comprehensive new approach to development rooted in planetary boundaries, equity, and inclusivity. The wide scope of the SDGs will necessitate unprecedented integration of siloed policy portfolios to work at international, regional, and national levels toward multiple goals and mitigate the conflicts that arise from competing resource demands. In this analysis, we adopt a comprehensive modeling approach to understand how coherent policy combinations can manage trade-offs among environmental conservation initiatives and food prices. Our scenario results indicate that SDG strategies constructed around Sustainable Consumption and Production policies can minimize problem-shifting, which has long placed global development and conservation a

SUBMITTER: Obersteiner M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5026423 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature