The System view of the Sustainable Development Goals

Giovanni Ferri and Habib Sedehi
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Habib Sedehi: LUMSA University

No wpC28, CERBE Working Papers from CERBE Center for Relationship Banking and Economics

Abstract: The 2030 UN Agenda provides a list of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Typically, SDGs are viewed as non-hierarchical, if not standalone, objectives. Our main aim is to try to represent the structure of multilayered relationships among the SDGs, where possible assigning influence links in order to configure a Systems Thinking view. We achieve that by sketching a Causal Loop Diagram (CLD) which allows drawing the multiple linkages on qualitative grounds disregarding the individual SDGs measurement issues. To close the system and conform it to quantitative analysis, we propose adding three other goals and using Systems Dynamics (SD) modeling analysis. Our approach is twofold. First, it is entirely deductive based on our a priori. Secondly, however, we draw references to the relevant literature to provide support to our initial conjectures.

Keywords: Sustainable; System Thinking; System Dynamics; Modelling; SDGs; 2030 UN Agenda (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 10 pages
Date: 2018-07
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