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2021 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

18. Reshaping Geoscience to Help Deliver the Sustainable Development Goals

Author : Joel C. Gill

Published in: Geosciences and the Sustainable Development Goals

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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The SDGs (and frameworks embedded into the SDGs1) have the potential to transform society, giving human beings everywhere dignity and equality, meeting the needs of present and future generations in a responsible manner, and ensuring a healthy planet where environmental protection is valued and prioritised. This is an exciting vision, and one that communities across the globe would recognise as being positive and fundamental to their successful future. This vision is also highly ambitious and enormously complex and challenging to deliver by 2030, in all contexts, leaving no one behind. …

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1
Examples include the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, and the Paris Climate Change Agreement.
 
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https://​www.​gfgd.​org/​. See https://​www.​gfgd.​org/​education for a set of open-access Higher Education Learning Resources.
 
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Metadata
Title
Reshaping Geoscience to Help Deliver the Sustainable Development Goals
Author
Joel C. Gill
Copyright Year
2021
Book
Geosciences and the Sustainable Development Goals

Print ISBN: 978-3-030-38814-0

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-38815-7

Copyright Year: 2021

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38815-7_18