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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Kørnøv, Lone
• Lyhne, Ivar
• Davila, Juanita Gallego

Titel

Linking the UN SDGs and environmental assessment: Towards a conceptual framework

Ist Teil von

• Environmental impact assessment review, 2020-11, Vol.85, p.106463-9, Article 106463

Ort / Verlag

Oxford: Elsevier Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Linking UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Environmental Assessment (EA)—for mutual benefit—is an emerging topic within research and practice. Thus, knowledge and models of how to make the link are rather undiscovered and novel. This article aims to contribute to the understanding of linkages between the SDGs and EA in theory and practice. The output of the article is a framework for determining the level of integration of the SDGs and EA. In the framework, three main forms of integration are distinguished: non-integration, partial integration, and radical integration, and covering six levels of integration. A research agenda is proposed to strengthen the framework and to explore potentials and implications of the integration of the two concepts. •EA is of high relevance for achieving the UN SDGs.•Linking EA and SDGs is an emergent field comprising only a few research papers.•EA and SDGs are linked in different ways and there is a need for clarifying these.•A conceptual framework is proposed consisting of six levels of integration.•A research agenda is outlined to strengthen the framework and explore implications.