Spatial variability in sustainable development trajectories in South Africa: provincial level safe and just operating spaces.

ABSTRACT: The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) represents the first globally agreed framework to address human development and environmental stewardship in an integrated way. One approach to summarising national SDG status is our "barometer for inclusive sustainable development in South Africa". The barometer downscales global social and planetary boundaries to provide status and trends for 20 critical indicators of environmental stress and social deprivation. In this paper, we explore the sub-national heterogeneity in sustainable development indicators by creating barometers defining the 'safe and just operating space' for South Africa's nine provinces. Our results show that environmental stress varies significantly and provinces need to focus on quite different issues. Although generally envir

SUBMITTER: Cole MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6086264 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature