Necessary or oversimplification? On the strengths and limitations of current assessments to integrate social dimensions in planetary boundaries

With the Earth system being about to leave Holocene conditions and thus the known safe operating space for humanity, frameworks such as the Planetary Boundaries (PBs) and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide quantitative metrics to guide sustainability transformations. In order to strive...

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Autores principales:	Lukas Drees, Robert Luetkemeier, Heide Kerber
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Publicado:	Elsevier 2021
Materias:	Sustainable Development Goals Societal well-being Global indicators Social-ecological transformations Integrated modelling Ecology QH540-549.5
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:9b69f73d02e34b13a781fb1359c059aa2021-12-01T04:57:53ZNecessary or oversimplification? On the strengths and limitations of current assessments to integrate social dimensions in planetary boundaries1470-160X10.1016/j.ecolind.2021.108009https://doaj.org/article/9b69f73d02e34b13a781fb1359c059aa2021-10-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1470160X21006749https://doaj.org/toc/1470-160XWith the Earth system being about to leave Holocene conditions and thus the known safe operating space for humanity, frameworks such as the Planetary Boundaries (PBs) and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide quantitative metrics to guide sustainability transformations. In order to strive, not only for compliance with the PBs but also for societal well-being, some approaches attempt to combine both PBs and SDGs within a single assessment.We focus on two prominent examples, the “Doughnut” by Kate Raworth and the #SDGinPB project of the 2018 report to the Club of Rome, which are not only aimed at public outreach, but also at guiding policy-making. To meet these objectives, the approaches should possess a certain accuracy in determining the progress in achieving the SDGs and in complying with the PBs. We evaluate, by using a multi-indicator approach for comparison, whether both approaches’ limited set of indicators can still represent the SDGs’ complexity. This comparative approach estimates the progress in achieving SDGs, especially in the Global North, to be significantly lower.Based on these results and against the approaches’ purposes, we discuss their simplifications and at which point the results are no longer reliable. We conclude that global assessments can be an important factor in initiating transformative processes by stimulating public discourse, but that the actual implementation of these would require approaches with greater recognition of local particularities.Lukas DreesRobert LuetkemeierHeide KerberElsevierarticleSustainable Development GoalsSocietal well-beingGlobal indicatorsSocial-ecological transformationsIntegrated modellingEcologyQH540-549.5ENEcological Indicators, Vol 129, Iss , Pp 108009- (2021)
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topic	Sustainable Development Goals Societal well-being Global indicators Social-ecological transformations Integrated modelling Ecology QH540-549.5
spellingShingle	Sustainable Development Goals Societal well-being Global indicators Social-ecological transformations Integrated modelling Ecology QH540-549.5 Lukas Drees Robert Luetkemeier Heide Kerber Necessary or oversimplification? On the strengths and limitations of current assessments to integrate social dimensions in planetary boundaries
description	With the Earth system being about to leave Holocene conditions and thus the known safe operating space for humanity, frameworks such as the Planetary Boundaries (PBs) and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide quantitative metrics to guide sustainability transformations. In order to strive, not only for compliance with the PBs but also for societal well-being, some approaches attempt to combine both PBs and SDGs within a single assessment.We focus on two prominent examples, the “Doughnut” by Kate Raworth and the #SDGinPB project of the 2018 report to the Club of Rome, which are not only aimed at public outreach, but also at guiding policy-making. To meet these objectives, the approaches should possess a certain accuracy in determining the progress in achieving the SDGs and in complying with the PBs. We evaluate, by using a multi-indicator approach for comparison, whether both approaches’ limited set of indicators can still represent the SDGs’ complexity. This comparative approach estimates the progress in achieving SDGs, especially in the Global North, to be significantly lower.Based on these results and against the approaches’ purposes, we discuss their simplifications and at which point the results are no longer reliable. We conclude that global assessments can be an important factor in initiating transformative processes by stimulating public discourse, but that the actual implementation of these would require approaches with greater recognition of local particularities.
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title	Necessary or oversimplification? On the strengths and limitations of current assessments to integrate social dimensions in planetary boundaries
title_short	Necessary or oversimplification? On the strengths and limitations of current assessments to integrate social dimensions in planetary boundaries
title_full	Necessary or oversimplification? On the strengths and limitations of current assessments to integrate social dimensions in planetary boundaries
title_fullStr	Necessary or oversimplification? On the strengths and limitations of current assessments to integrate social dimensions in planetary boundaries
title_full_unstemmed	Necessary or oversimplification? On the strengths and limitations of current assessments to integrate social dimensions in planetary boundaries
title_sort	necessary or oversimplification? on the strengths and limitations of current assessments to integrate social dimensions in planetary boundaries
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Necessary or oversimplification? On the strengths and limitations of current assessments to integrate social dimensions in planetary boundaries

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