Monitoring of UN sustainable development goal SDG-9.1.1: study of Algerian "Belt and Road" expressways constructed by China.

ABSTRACT: The proportion of the rural population who live within 2 km of an all-season road is an indicator of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 9.1.1. This paper aims to calculate SDG indicator 9.1.1 in the proximity of five Algerian expressways. Three monitoring methods are proposed for different spatial regions based on the five expressways built by China's Belt and Road Initiative Project. These methods are based on remote sensing and WorldPop and The High Resolution Settlement Layer (HRSL) population data. The results indicate that (1) the WorldPop population statistics show that the five expressways built by China's Belt Project have increased the rural population of the 2 km buffer zone by 192,016 between the start of construction and eight years after its completion. B

SUBMITTER: Jia Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7274168 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature