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DOI	10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2021.102306
	When the whole is less than the sum of all parts – Tracking global-level impacts of national sustainability initiatives
	Downing A.S.; Wong G.Y.; Dyer M.; Aguiar A.P.; Selomane O.; Jiménez Aceituno A.
发表日期	2021
ISSN	9593780
卷号	69
英文摘要	The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are described as integrated and indivisible, where sustainability challenges must be addressed across sectors and scales to achieve global-level sustainability. However, SDG monitoring mostly focuses on tracking progress at national-levels, for each goal individually. This approach ignores local and cross-border impacts of national policies and assumes that global-level progress is the sum of national, sector-specific gains. In this study, we investigate effects of reforestation programs in China on countries supplying forest and agricultural commodities to China. Using case studies of rubber and palm oil production in Southeast Asian countries, soy production in Brazil and logging in South Pacific Island states, we investigate cross-sector effects of production for and trade to China in these exporting countries. We use a three-step multi-method approach. 1) We identify distal trade flows and the narratives used to justify them, using a telecoupling framework; 2) we design causal loop diagrams to analyse social-ecological processes of change in our case studies driven by trade to China and 3) we link these processes of change to the SDG framework. We find that sustainability progress in China from reforestation is cancelled out by the deforestation and cross-sectoral impacts supporting this reforestation abroad. Narratives of economic development support commodity production abroad through unrealised aims of benefit distribution and assumptions of substitutability of socio-ecological forest systems. Across cases, we find the analysed trade supports unambiguous progress on few SDGs only, and we find many mixed effects – where processes that support the achievement of SDGs exist, but are overshadowed by counterproductive processes. Our study represents a useful approach for tracking global-level impacts of national sustainability initiatives and provides cross-scale and cross-sectoral lenses through which to identify drivers of unsustainability that can be addressed in the design of effective sustainability policies. © 2021
关键词	China Cross-system social-ecological burdens Reforestation Sustainable Development Goals Telecoupling framework Trade routes
英文关键词	economic development; global perspective; oil production; reforestation; spatiotemporal analysis; sustainability; sustainable development; Sustainable Development Goal; Brazil; China; Pacific Ocean; Pacific Ocean (South); Southeast Asia
语种	英语
来源期刊	Global Environmental Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/205497
作者单位	Global Economic Dynamics and The Biosphere Programme, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Box SE-50005, Stockholm, 104 05, Sweden; Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Stockholm, SE-106 91, Sweden; Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto, Japan; National Institute for Space Research (INPE), Av. Dos Astronautas 1758, CEP: 12227-010, São José dos Campos, SP, Brazil; Centre for Sustainability Transitions, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Downing A.S.,Wong G.Y.,Dyer M.,等. When the whole is less than the sum of all parts – Tracking global-level impacts of national sustainability initiatives[J],2021,69.
APA	Downing A.S.,Wong G.Y.,Dyer M.,Aguiar A.P.,Selomane O.,&Jiménez Aceituno A..(2021).When the whole is less than the sum of all parts – Tracking global-level impacts of national sustainability initiatives.Global Environmental Change,69.
MLA	Downing A.S.,et al."When the whole is less than the sum of all parts – Tracking global-level impacts of national sustainability initiatives".Global Environmental Change 69(2021).