Progress and prospects of Geography in promoting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals:A discussion on the theoretical framework of Sustainable Geography
Sustainable development is a significant scientific issue of global concern.Geography,as a comprehensive discipline focusing on the coupled relationship between human activities and the natural environment,provides systematic research and solutions for achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs).However,there is currently a lack of comprehensive reviews.This paper summarizes the theoretical framework and research progress of Geography supporting the SDGs and explores its future key research areas.This article indicates that:(1)Geography,in conducting integrated research on human-nature systems and serving regional and global sustainable development processes,has innovatively proposed and developed theoretical frameworks such as social-ecological systems,pattem-process-service-sustainability,metacoupling,and Classification-Coordination-Collaboration.These research frameworks include elements of human-environment system interconnections,process coupling,spatial coupling,and systematic regulation oriented towards SDGs,forming a comprehensive theoretical framework supporting sustainable development research in Geography,also referred to as"sustainable geography theoretical framework".(2)Geography has made positive progress in supporting the United Nations SDGs research in areas such as multi-source data acquisition,localization of indicator systems and multi-scale progress assessment,analysis of inter-target linkage mechanisms,and SDG achievement pathways.Geography provides important theoretical and methodological support for SDG research.(3)Geography and sustainable development-related research mainly focus on climate-ecological crisis response,sustainable utilization of food-energy-water resources,regional development and planning,human well-being and social governance,and the construction of SDG assessment indicators and databases.(4)In future research,there is a need to innovate and develop sub-disciplines of Sustainable Geography,optimize the construction of SDGs indicator systems,develop SDGs assessment and decision-making models,strengthen artificial intelligence geography,deepen research on human-nature system coupling,and promote regional and global sustainable development in the process of advancing innovation in the discipline of Geography.
Sustainable Geographyhuman-nature system couplingsocial-ecological systemsSDGshuman well-being
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