Elsevier,
Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Volume 97, Dec 2018, Pages 290-300.
This article debates the practicality and benefits of comprehensive food-energy-water nexus policy approaches. Improved understandings of the nexus holds broad potential to contribute to multiple interconnected SDGs including zero hunger, clean water and sanitation, and affordable and clean energy.
Elsevier,
NJAS-Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences, Volume 81, June 2017, Pages 1-8.
Winnig the July 2017 Elsevier Atlas prize, this article advances goals 2 and 5 through its discussion of the importance of gender-aware seed governance regimes to develop smallholder agriculture, increase gender equity, and enhance food security and rural livelihoods in the dry areas of the temperate world.
Elsevier,
Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, Volume 34, October 2018, Pages 43-47.
The SDGs offer oppotunities for closer environment-poverty integration. However, to be transformative, they need a broadening of measures and indicators. This paper argues that indicators should include constituent roles of environment in wellbeing and poverty, furthering goals 1 and 3.
Elsevier,
Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, Volume 34, October 2018, Pages 26-32.
SDG 5 - gender equality - has the potential to enhance food security through its attention to women's access to land and natural resources. However, it fails to address women's limited access to irrigation, credit and other inputs. As such, this paper calls for goal 5 to be expanded through synergies with other SDGs.
Elsevier,
Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, Volume 34, October 2018, Pages 21-25.
This paper contributes to goal 6 by calling for academics to step in and provide more realistic objectives, criteria and indicators for measuring the performance of clean water, sanitation and wastewater services. This will help to focus efforts over the lifetime of the SDGs and prevent the failings of the MDGs from being repeated.
Elsevier,
Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, Volume 34, October 2018, Pages 13-20.
This article makes the case for transformative action in the food system to acheieve SDG 13 and UNFCCC agreements. Goal 12 is seen as central to this given the possibility of trade-offs between adaptation and mitigation, and amongst other SDGs.
Elsevier,
Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, Volume 34, October 2018, Pages 7-12.
Forests are essential to the SDGs and can further multiple SDGs simultaneously. This paper contributes to goal 15 by discussing the importance of integrated, innovative and inclusive governance systems to ensure that efforts to advance the SDGs can better benefit from, and provide support for, forests.
Elsevier,
Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry, Volume 13, October 2018, Pages 146-149.
Advancing goals 9 and 12, this article argues that, if chemistry is to contribute effectively to achieving the SDGs, we need to change the way that things are done at both ends of the chemical supply chain.
