TY  - JOUR
A1  - Warchold, Anne
A1  - Pradhan, Prajal
A1  - Thapa, Pratibha
A1  - Putra, Muhammad Panji Islam Fajar
A1  - Kropp, Jürgen
T1  - Building a unified sustainable development goal database
BT  - why does sustainable development goal data selection matter?
JF  - Sustainable development
N2  - The 2020s are an essential decade for achieving the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). For this, SDG research needs to provide evidence that can be translated into concrete actions. However, studies use different SDG data, resulting in incomparable findings. Researchers primarily use SDG databases provided by the United Nations (UN), the World Bank Group (WBG), and the Bertelsmann Stiftung & Sustainable Development Solutions Network (BE-SDSN). We compile these databases into one unified SDG database and examine the effects of the data selection on our understanding of SDG interactions. Among the databases, we observed more different than similar SDG interactions. Differences in synergies and trade-offs mainly occur for SDGs that are environmentally oriented. Due to the increased data availability, the unified SDG database offers a more nuanced and reliable view of SDG interactions. Thus, the SDG data selection may lead to diverse findings, fostering actions that might neglect or exacerbate trade-offs.
KW  - inequalities
KW  - SDG indicator databases
KW  - SDG interactions
KW  - SDG networks;
KW  - SDGs
KW  - synergies and trade-offs
Y1  - 2022
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1002/sd.2316
SN  - 0968-0802
SN  - 1099-1719
PB  - Wiley
CY  - Hoboken
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Putra, Muhammad Panji Islam Fajar
A1  - Pradhan, Prajal
A1  - Kropp, Jürgen
T1  - A systematic analysis of Water-Energy-Food security nexus
BT  - a South Asian case study
JF  - The science of the total environment : an international journal for scientific research into the environment and its relationship with man
N2  - Most South Asian countries have challenges in ensuring water, energy, and food (WEF) security, which are often interacting positively or negatively. To address these challenges, the nexus approach provides a framework to identify the interactions of the WEF sectors as an integrated system. However, most nexus studies only qualitatively discuss the interactions between these sectors. This study conducts a systematic analysis of the WEF security nexus in South Asia by using open data sources at the country scale. We analyze interactions between the WEF sectors statistically, defining positive and negative correlations between the WEF security indicators as synergies and trade-offs, respectively. By creating networks of the synergies and trade-offs, we further identify most positively and negatively influencing indicators in the WEF security nexus. We observe a larger share of trade-offs than synergies within the water and energy sectors and a larger share of synergies than trade-offs among the WEF sectors for South Asia. However, these observations vary across the South Asian countries. Our analysis highlights that strategies on promoting sustainable energy and discouraging fossil fuel use could have overall positive effects on the WEF security nexus in the countries. This study provides evidence for considering the WEF security nexus as an integrated system rather than just a combination of three different sectors or securities.
KW  - water security
KW  - food security
KW  - energy security
KW  - network analysis
KW  - water-energy-food nexus
KW  - sustainable development
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.138451
SN  - 0048-9697
SN  - 1879-1026
VL  - 728
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  -