Informations et ressources scientifiques
sur le développement des zones arides et semi-arides

Titre : Science in action : intersecting pathways to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) across scales in the drylands (XPaths)

Pays/Région : Senegal, Brazil, and Spain

Date : 1 January 2020–31 December 2023

Identifiant : 2020-00474_Formas

Présentation
Identifying inclusive pathways to reaching sustainable and just futures is extremely challenging, particularly in areas like global drylands due to their increasing social and environmental pressures, rising inequalities and conflicts related to water availability.

This project addresses the critical issues of co-designing inclusive pathways towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through a science-action research process in three critical dryland regions - Senegal, Brazil, and Spain. The project will advance knowledge on barriers and leverage points for the achievement of the SDGs through participative transdisciplinary processes operating at multiple levels, from local to global, as a means to connect global goals to local issues and aspirations. The project combines cutting-edge approaches of systems thinking, resilience thinking, cross-scale modeling and participative techniques to co-design and act upon pathways to reach the SDGs. In addition, it identifies how pathways towards SDGs in drylands are influenced by distal regions, such as Sweden and the EU, through a number of factors such as trade, investment, and development policies. Finally, we employ archetype analysis to shed light on which elements of pathways towards the SDGs and which leverage points are recurrent across dryland regions, and therefore potentially transferable to other related contexts.

Coordination : Stockholm University

Financement : Formas
Budget : 19,998,505 kr

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