Evenness is important in assessing progress towards sustainable development goals  

作　　者：Yali Liu Jianqing Du Yanfen Wang Xiaoyong Cui Jichang Dong Yanbin Hao Kai Xue Hongbo Duan Anquan Xia Yi Hu Zhi Dong Bingfang Wu Xinquan Zhao Bojie Fu 

机构地区：[1]College of Resources and Environment,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100049,China [2]College of Life Sciences,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100049,China [3]CAS Center for Excellence in Tibetan Plateau Earth Sciences,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100101,China [4]Yanshan Earth Critical Zone and Surface Fluxes Research Station,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100049,China [5]School of Economics&Management,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100190,China [6]School of Innovation and Entrepreneurship,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100190,China [7]State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science,Aerospace Information Research Institute,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100101,China [8]Key Laboratory of Adaptation and Evolution of Plateau Biota,Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Xining 810008 China [9]State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology,Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100085,China

出　　处：《National Science Review》2021年第8期153-162,共10页国家科学评论（英文版）

基　　金：supported by the International Partnership Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(121311KYSB20170004–04);the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2017YFA0604701);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (42001267);the CAS Strategic Priority Research Programme (XDA20050103);financial support by the China Association for Science and Technology

摘　　要：Sustainable development goals(SDGs)emphasize a holistic achievement instead of cherry-picking a few.However,no assessment has quantitatively considered the evenness among all 17 goals.Here,we propose a systematic method,which first integrates both the evenness and the overall status of all goals,to distinguish the ideal development pathways from the uneven ones and then revisit the development trajectory in China from 2000 to 2015.Our results suggest that,despite the remarkable progress,a bottleneck has occurred in China since 2013 due to the stagnant developments in some SDGs.However,many far-reaching policies in China have been targeting these deficiencies since then,providing a perspective on how a country approaches sustainable development by promoting evenness among all SDGs.Our results also indicate that regions with the slowest progress are the developed provinces,owing to the persistent uneven status of all goals.Our study demonstrates the importance of adopting evenness in assessing and guiding sustainable development.

关 键 词：sustainable development goals EVENNESS development pathway adaptive strategy China 

分 类 号：X22[环境科学与工程—环境科学] F124.5[经济管理—世界经济]