Sustainable Development Goals at regional level: Case study for enhancing performance assessment

IF 5.3 2区环境科学与生态学 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Environmental Development Pub Date : 2025-09-19 DOI:10.1016/j.envdev.2025.101355

María Grijelmo , MªBegoña Etxebarria , Astrid Barona , Naiara Rojo , Francisco Sánchez-Fuente

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Abstract

While the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development provides a global framework for progress, assessing the achievement of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at regional level remains a challenge. Methodological difficulties arise in indicator selection, data processing, and result interpretation, which must account for each region's unique social, economic, and political context. In this study, the United Nations' (UN) Sustainable Development Goals Report methodology is tested and adapted for regional application to enhance its suitability and comparability. The Basque Country, a region in northern Spain, serves as case study, where the performance of all SDGs and the overall SDG Index are calculated based on a non-compensatory approach. In the case study, the region reached an overall SDG Index of 40.69 %. Performance across the individual SDGs varied considerably, ranging from 0 % for SDG14 (Live below water) to 81.89 % for SDG12 (Responsible consumption and production). Given the level of industrial development in the Basque Country, it is also worth noting that SDG 9 (Industry, innovation, and infrastructure) performed relatively well, achieving a score of 76.44 %. The non-compensatory approach used in this study not only provides a robust basis for evaluating SDG progress at the regional level but also serves as a proposal for inter-territorial comparisons, with potential implications for national assessments.

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区域一级的可持续发展目标：加强绩效评估的案例研究

虽然《2030年可持续发展议程》为进展提供了一个全球框架，但在区域层面评估17项可持续发展目标的实现情况仍然是一项挑战。方法上的困难出现在指标选择、数据处理和结果解释方面，这必须考虑到每个地区独特的社会、经济和政治背景。在本研究中，联合国（UN）可持续发展目标报告的方法进行了测试和适应区域应用，以提高其适用性和可比性。西班牙北部的巴斯克地区作为案例研究，所有可持续发展目标的绩效和整体可持续发展目标指数都是基于非补偿性方法计算的。在案例研究中，该地区实现了40.69%的总体可持续发展目标指数。各个可持续发展目标的表现差异很大，从可持续发展目标14（水下生活）的0%到可持续发展目标12（负责任的消费和生产）的81.89%不等。考虑到巴斯克地区的工业发展水平，同样值得注意的是，可持续发展目标9（工业、创新和基础设施）表现相对较好，得分为76.44%。本研究中使用的非补偿性方法不仅为评估区域层面的可持续发展目标进展提供了坚实的基础，而且还可以作为区域间比较的建议，对国家评估具有潜在影响。

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Environmental Development Social Sciences-Geography, Planning and Development

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8.40

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74 days

期刊介绍： Environmental Development provides a future oriented, pro-active, authoritative source of information and learning for researchers, postgraduate students, policymakers, and managers, and bridges the gap between fundamental research and the application in management and policy practices. It stimulates the exchange and coupling of traditional scientific knowledge on the environment, with the experiential knowledge among decision makers and other stakeholders and also connects natural sciences and social and behavioral sciences. Environmental Development includes and promotes scientific work from the non-western world, and also strengthens the collaboration between the developed and developing world. Further it links environmental research to broader issues of economic and social-cultural developments, and is intended to shorten the delays between research and publication, while ensuring thorough peer review. Environmental Development also creates a forum for transnational communication, discussion and global action. Environmental Development is open to a broad range of disciplines and authors. The journal welcomes, in particular, contributions from a younger generation of researchers, and papers expanding the frontiers of environmental sciences, pointing at new directions and innovative answers. All submissions to Environmental Development are reviewed using the general criteria of quality, originality, precision, importance of topic and insights, clarity of exposition, which are in keeping with the journal''s aims and scope.