A New Method for the Quantitative Assessment of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and a Case Study on Central Asia

doi:10.3390/su11133504

	A New Method for the Quantitative Assessment of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and a Case Study on Central Asia
	Huan, Yizhong 1,2; Li, Haitao 1; Liang, Tao 1,2
刊名	SUSTAINABILITY
	2019-07-01
卷号	11 期号:13 页码:27
关键词	sustainable development goals sustainable development sustainability sustainable indicators SDGs assessment SDGs performance Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan
ISSN号	2071-1050
DOI	10.3390/su11133504
通讯作者	Li, Haitao(liht@igsnrr.ac.cn)
英文摘要	Regarding the sustainable development goals (SDGs) formulated by the United Nations (UN), how to effectively measure, assess and compare the progress and trends of these SDGs in different countries was the problem we wanted to address. Based on past quantitative assessments, this paper proposed a new methodological framework for SDG assessment and analysis, and used two typical Central Asian countries, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, as the sample area to test the framework. Our study chose 209 indicators and indicator sets, including 429 specific indicators and collected relevant indicator data for the two countries from 2000 to 2017, then proposed a new direction for the unification of indicator data as well as methods for normalization. Afterward, the scores of each goal and SDG performance were calculated. This analysis was also done innovatively using the Chow Test to conduct further analysis of the SDG performance. According to the assessment, over those 18 years, Kyrgyzstan's SDGs had been performing poorly, especially the economic SDGs, while the performance of Kazakhstan's SDGs had remained in constant fluctuation. It could be said that the SDG performance in Central Asia as a whole was not very optimistic. It required the devotion of greater efforts in the gathering of different types of indicator data because there were still gaps in data collection between countries as well as the missing of time-series data, which could challenge the indicator selection and further restrict the follow-up assessment and analysis. The assessment framework presented in this paper can be applied for assessing the long-term performance of national SDGs of different countries, helping analyze the internal relationship dynamic among and within countries, underscoring specific issues of sustainable development, assessing policy and selecting development models and directions.
资助项目	Strategic Priority Research Program A of the Chinese Academy of Sciences[XDA20010301]
WOS关键词	INDICATORS ; INDEXES
WOS研究方向	Science & Technology - Other Topics ; Environmental Sciences & Ecology
语种	英语
出版者	MDPI
WOS记录号	WOS:000477051900010
资助机构	Strategic Priority Research Program A of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.igsnrr.ac.cn/handle/311030/58107]
专题	中国科学院地理科学与资源研究所
通讯作者	Li, Haitao
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Geog Sci & Nat Resources Res, Key Lab Land Surface Pattern & Simulat, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China 2.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Beijing 10049, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Huan, Yizhong,Li, Haitao,Liang, Tao. A New Method for the Quantitative Assessment of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and a Case Study on Central Asia[J]. SUSTAINABILITY,2019,11(13):27.
APA	Huan, Yizhong,Li, Haitao,&Liang, Tao.(2019).A New Method for the Quantitative Assessment of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and a Case Study on Central Asia.SUSTAINABILITY,11(13),27.
MLA	Huan, Yizhong,et al."A New Method for the Quantitative Assessment of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and a Case Study on Central Asia".SUSTAINABILITY 11.13(2019):27.