Sustainable Development Goals:Their Impacts on Forests and People

Forests provide vital ecosystem services crucial to human well-being and sustainable development, and have an important role to play in achieving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations 2030 Agenda. Little attention, however, has yet focused on how efforts to achieve the SDGs will impact forests and forest-related livelihoods, and how these impacts may, in turn, enhance or undermine the contributions of forests to climate and development. This book discusses the conditions that influence how SDGs are implemented and prioritised, and provides a systematic, multidisciplinary global assessment of interlinkages among the SDGs and their targets, increasing understanding of potential synergies and unavoidable trade-offs between goals. Ideal for academic researchers, students and decision-makers interested in sustainable development in the context of forests, this book will provide invaluable knowledge for efforts undertaken to reach the SDGs. This title is available as Open Access via Cambridge Core.

Pia Katila is Senior Research Scientist at the Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke). She is the coordinator and editor-in-chief of the International Union of Forest Research Organizations’ Special Project ‘World Forests, Society and Environment’ (IUFRO WFSE), a large international research network.

Carol J. Pierce Colfer is Senior Associate at the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Bogor, Indonesia, and a Visiting Scholar, Southeast Asia Program, at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, US.

Wil de Jong is Professor at the Center for Southeast Asian and Integrated Area Studies, Kyoto University, Japan and appointed top level foreign expert at Renmin University of China.

Glenn Galloway is Director of the Master of Sustainable Development Practice Program, at the Center for Latin American Studies/Center for African Studies, University of Florida, USA. He is also Chair to the IUFRO WFSE Special Project’s Steering Committee.

Pablo Pacheco is Global Forest Lead Scientist at the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), Washington, DC, and Senior Associate at the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Indonesia.

Georg Winkel is Head of Bonn Office and the Resilience Research Programme at the European Forest Institute (EFI), Bonn, Germany, and Associate Professor at both the University of Freiburg and the University of Bonn, Germany.