Evenness is important in assessing progress towards sustainable development goals

	Evenness is important in assessing progress towards sustainable development goals
	Liu, Yali; Du, Jianqing; Wang, Yanfen; Cui, Xiaoyong; Dong, Jichang; Hao, Yanbin; Xue, Kai; Duan, Hongbo; Xia, Anquan; Hu, Yi
刊名	NATIONAL SCIENCE REVIEW
	2021
卷号	8 期号:8
关键词	sustainable development goals evenness development pathway adaptive strategy China
英文摘要	Sustainable development goals (SDGs) emphasize a holistic achievement instead of cherry-picking a few. However, no assessment has quantitatively considered the evenness among all 17 goals. Here, we propose a systematic method, which first integrates both the evenness and the overall status of all goals, to distinguish the ideal development pathways from the uneven ones and then revisit the development trajectory in China from 2000 to 2015. Our results suggest that, despite the remarkable progress, a bottleneck has occurred in China since 2013 due to the stagnant developments in some SDGs. However, many far-reaching policies in China have been targeting these deficiencies since then, providing a perspective on how a country approaches sustainable development by promoting evenness among all SDGs. Our results also indicate that regions with the slowest progress are the developed provinces, owing to the persistent uneven status of all goals. Our study demonstrates the importance of adopting evenness in assessing and guiding sustainable development.
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://210.75.249.4/handle/363003/60753]
专题	西北高原生物研究所_中国科学院西北高原生物研究所
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Liu, Yali,Du, Jianqing,Wang, Yanfen,et al. Evenness is important in assessing progress towards sustainable development goals[J]. NATIONAL SCIENCE REVIEW,2021,8(8).
APA	Liu, Yali.,Du, Jianqing.,Wang, Yanfen.,Cui, Xiaoyong.,Dong, Jichang.,...&Fu, Bojie.(2021).Evenness is important in assessing progress towards sustainable development goals.NATIONAL SCIENCE REVIEW,8(8).
MLA	Liu, Yali,et al."Evenness is important in assessing progress towards sustainable development goals".NATIONAL SCIENCE REVIEW 8.8(2021).