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The Role of the Geospatial Information System (GIS) in Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): A Spatial Framework for Sustainable Planning Processes

The Role of the Geospatial Information System (GIS) in Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): A Spatial Framework for Sustainable Planning Processes

Arian Behradfar, José Cabezas
Copyright: © 2022 |Pages: 31
ISBN13: 9781799884828|ISBN10: 1799884821|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781799884835|EISBN13: 9781799884842
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-8482-8.ch027
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Behradfar, Arian, and José Cabezas. "The Role of the Geospatial Information System (GIS) in Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): A Spatial Framework for Sustainable Planning Processes." Handbook of Research on Sustainable Development Goals, Climate Change, and Digitalization, edited by Rui Alexandre Castanho, IGI Global, 2022, pp. 451-481. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-8482-8.ch027

APA

Behradfar, A. & Cabezas, J. (2022). The Role of the Geospatial Information System (GIS) in Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): A Spatial Framework for Sustainable Planning Processes. In R. Castanho (Ed.), Handbook of Research on Sustainable Development Goals, Climate Change, and Digitalization (pp. 451-481). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-8482-8.ch027

Chicago

Behradfar, Arian, and José Cabezas. "The Role of the Geospatial Information System (GIS) in Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): A Spatial Framework for Sustainable Planning Processes." In Handbook of Research on Sustainable Development Goals, Climate Change, and Digitalization, edited by Rui Alexandre Castanho, 451-481. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2022. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-8482-8.ch027

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Abstract

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) represent an innovative strategy to transform the socio-economic and environmental aspects of communities. Sustainable development provides the communities with a set of substantial challenges that are totally geospatial in concept and practice. Most of these challenges can be identified, examined, and visualized within a spatial framework. Despite of noteworthy progress in geospatial information system and science, the lack of comprehensive impressions in planning necessitates the integrative role of geospatial information. This study aims to investigate this role in contributing to SDGs by describing each single goal and following objectives. Furthermore, spatial and non-spatial issues regarding every specific SDG will be accurately discussed to determine the spatial aspects in practice. In this way, the communities will be empowered by unique opportunities to integrate and represent geospatial information into the global agenda in a specific manner, specifically in contributing data resources toward measuring and monitoring the 17 SDGs.

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