Integration: the key to implementing the Sustainable Development Goals

Sustainability Science

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 911-919

  Stafford Smith, Mark ^a,b   Griggs, David ^c,d   Gaffney, Owen ^b,e   Ullah, Farooq ^b,f   Reyers, Belinda ^b,e   Kanie, Norichika ^g   Stigson, Bjorn ^b,h   Shrivastava, Paul ^i,j   Leach, Melissa ^b,k   O’Connell, Deborah ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b Future Earth (FutureEarthorg)   (Canada)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^e STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^f Stakeholder Forum   (United Kingdom)

^g KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^h Stigson Partners   (Sweden)

ⁱ Future Earth   (Canada)

^j Civil and Environmental Engineering   (Canada)

^k UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

Governance; Human well being; Integration; Means of implementation; Sustainable Development Goals; Trade offs and synergies

Indexed keywords

EID: 84978718098     PISSN: 18624065     EISSN: 18624057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11625-016-0383-3     Document Type: Article

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