Several directives and measures which culminated with the design and the implementation of the Water Framework Directive, have attempted to address the issue of sustainable water management while aligning with targets of economic development. We review the European Water Framework Directive keeping in ...
and indicators. LeBlanc [11] creates an interlinkages matrix of the SDGs that maps each target with its own goal and reveals that while SDG 14 (Life below water) relates to only two other goals, the most connected with other goals is SDG12 (Responsible consumption and production). Lawford ...
One-fourth of the global population is without basic drinking water and half of the global population lacks sanitation facilities. The attainment of water
select article Beyond technology adoption: Examining home energy management systems, energy burdens and climate change perceptions during COVID-19 pandemic Research articleFull text access Beyond technology adoption: Examining home energy management systems, energy burdens and climate change perceptions during...
Inequitable distribution of food–energy–water resources and environmental crises clearly threaten SDG implementation. Evidently, there are gaps between the vision for SDG realization and actual capacity that constrain national efforts. The turbulent geopolitical environment, spatial inequities, and trade-...
VICRes - The model simulates key hydrological processes occurring in a river basin (e.g., water and energy balances, streamflow routing), but does not account for the operations of artificial water reservoirs. AWSM - Automated Water Supply Model was developed at the USDA Agricultural Research Se...
climate change has exerted persistent impacts on China’s ecological environment and socioeconomic development and brought serious threats to its food, water, ecology, energy, and urban operation security, as well as people’s safety and property29. China’s carbon emissions have significantly increase...
The Sustainable Development Report 2021 features the SDG Index and Dashboards, the first and widely used tool to assess country performance on the UN Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals. The report analyses and outlines what needs to happen for the Decade of Action and Delivery of...
We analyzed the enormous scale of global human needs, their carbon footprint, and how they are connected to energy availability. We established that most c
At the end of 2021, the proportion of the urban population was 63.89%, and the area of urban construction land was 61,300 km2 (http://www.stats.gov.cn/). Long-term high-intensity industrial development and a lack of scientific spatial management have resulted in large socioeconomic ...