Accounting for interactions between Sustainable Development Goals is essential for water pollution control in China
Chinese Academy of Sciences · Center for Agricultural Resources Research · +2 more institutions
Abstract
Meeting the United Nations' (UN's) 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has become a worldwide mission. How these SDGs interrelate, however, is not well known. We assess the interactions between SDGs for the case of water pollution by nutrients in China. The results show 319 interactions between SDGs for clean water (SDGs 6 and 14) and other SDGs, of which 286 are positive (synergies) and 33 are negative (tradeoffs) interactions. We analyze six scenarios in China accounting for the cobenefits of water pollution control using a large-scale water quality model. We consider scenarios that benefit from synergies and avoid tradeoffs. Our results show that effective pollution control requires accounting for the…
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 43.54
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 48
Authors
6- MWMengru WangCorresponding
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Center for Agricultural Resources Research, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Wageningen University & Research
- ABAnnette B.G. Janssen
Wageningen University & Research
- JBJeanne Bazin
Wageningen University & Research
- MSMaryna Strokal
Wageningen University & Research
- LMLin Ma
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Center for Agricultural Resources Research, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology
Topics & keywords
- Sustainable development
- China
- Business
- Pollution
- Environmental planning
- Environmental economics
- Environmental science
- Environmental resource management
Funding
- KNKoninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van WetenschappenAward: PSA-SA-E-01
- NNNational Natural Science Foundation of ChinaAward: U20A2047
- NONederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk OnderzoekAwards: 0.16.Veni.198.001, VI.Veni.194.002
- NKNational Key Research and Development Program of ChinaAward: 2016YFE0103100