Special Issue
Special Issue “Geospatiality and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Geography, Environment, Sustainability
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Introduction
The rapid human development and the contradiction between human and society, and economy and environment has greatly hindered the implementation of sustainable development strategy (Zhao and Wu, 2019). In order to draw more attention on sustainable development from governments, the United Nations adopted the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), 169 sub-goals and 232 targets at the United Nations Summit on Sustainable Development in 2015. Ever since then, many experts and researchers have been making great efforts to monitor, assess and realise SDGs. For example, while some researchers analysed the application of SDGs to ecology and environment (Salleh, 2016; Yenneti et al., 2016), others applied SDGs to humanities and education (Chowdhury and Koya, 2017; Sterling, 2014). Yet there are many difficulties. The sheer volume of geospatial data and the different understanding of the SDG indicators make this task more difficult. Further, there are relatively limited studies that attempt to more holistically capture the varieties of geospatial factors and contexts behind the articulation of SDGs.
In order to develop a vision for ensuring sustainable development, a discussion of the SDGs needs careful examination through new concepts, approaches and solutions to the problems. This special issue will include, but not limited to, studies on SDGs, monitoring and evaluation of SDGs, the use of geospatial technologies in assessing challenges in implementation of SDGs, the geospatiality of social and gender dimensions in SDG research and other development-related themes. The issue will promote integrated transdisciplinary approaches in SDGs research.
Other Publications
2019
Z.Wu, R.Chen, ME Meadows, D. Sengupta, Xu.Di, 2019. “Changing urban green spaces in Shanghai: trends, drivers and policy implications”, Land use Policy. 87, 104-116, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2019.104080
Sengupta, D.; Chen, R.; Meadows, M.E.; Choi, Y.R.; Banerjee, A.; Zilong, X. 2019. “Mapping Trajectories of Coastal Land Reclamation in Nine Deltaic Megacities using Google Earth Engine”. Remote Sens., 11, 2621
Sikka, G. 2019. “Emerging Inequalities in Gender Relations: A Post-Displacement Analysis of Sardar Sarovar Project Resettlement Sites, India” in Indian Journal of Spatial Science, 10(2), 108-115
Milaras, M. & McKay, TJM. 2019. Marginalisation of Global South Epistemics: The Case of a Soil Science Textbook. Journal of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in the South. 3(2):31-48. Available at: https://sotl-south journal.net/?journal=sotls&page=article&op=view&path%5B%5D=93&path%5B%5D=45
Korson, C. 2019. Global disorder in the undead world: Teaching geopolitics with zombies, Journal of Geography 118(1), 35-48. DOI: 10.1080/00221341.2018.1518991
Korson, C. 2019. “Political Geography: Sovereignty, Indigenous Rights, and Governance in an Island Context”, In Weronika Kusek and Nick Wise (Eds.) Human Geography and Professional Mobility, Routledge.
Cirelli C., Graziano T.,2019. “DMO, Destination branding e narrazioni territoriali: analisi critica di un progetto di aggregazione turistica”, in Geotema, 57, pp. 223-230.
Graziano T., 2019. «Effetto startup» in Sicilia: innovazione e competitività territoriale, fra retorica e sviluppo, in Geotema, 59, pp. 35-45.
Graziano T., 2019. “Nuove tecnologie, urbanesimo partecipativo e spazio pubblico: modelli e casi di studio”, in Salvatori F. (a cura di), L’apporto della Geografia tra rivoluzioni e riforme. Atti del XXXII Congresso Geografico Italiano (Roma, 7-10 giugno 2017), A.Ge.I., Roma, pp. 1509-1517.
Cirelli C., Graziano T., 2019. “Le startup nel commercio: luoghi, spazi e attori dell’innovazione”, in Salvatori F. (a cura di), L’apporto della Geografia tra rivoluzioni e riforme. Atti del XXXII Congresso Geografico Italiano (Roma, 7-10 giugno 2017), A.Ge.I., Roma, pp. 2391-2399.
Yenneti, K., Rahiman, R., Panda, A., Pignatta, G. 2019. Smart Energy Management Policy in India – A review. Energies, 12(17), 3214.
Wen, C., Yenneti, K., Wei, Y.H.D., Yuan, F., Wu, J., and Gao, J. 2019. Polycentricity in the Yangtze River Delta Urban Agglomeration (YRDUA): More Cohesion or More Disparities? Sustainability, 11(11):3106
Samarasinghe, G., Lagisz, M., Santamouris, M., Yenneti, K., Upadhyay, A.K., De La Peña Suarez, F., Taunk, B., Nakagawa, S. 2019. A visualized overview of systematic reviews and meta-analyses on low-carbon built environments: an evidence review map. Solar Energy, 186: 291-299
Kantamaneni, K., Rani, N.V.V.S., Rice, L., Sur, K., Thayaparan, M., Kulatunga, U., Rege, R., Yenneti, K., Campos, L.C. A systematic review of coastal vulnerability in Andhra Pradesh, India: a critical evaluation of data gathering, risk levels and mitigation strategies. Water, 11(2): 393
Hawken, S., Yenneti, K., and Bodilis, C. Mapping climate vulnerability with Open Data: A dashboard for place-based action. 2019. In Hawken S, Han H, Pettit C. (ed.) Open Cities | Open Data: Collaborative Cities in the Information Era., (pp. 151-175). Ch. 7, Palgrave-McMillan, Singapore.
2018
Aru S., Graziano T., Landi F., Magistri P. 2018, Migrations: between roots and arrivals,
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908926-2-2.
Graziano T. 2018, Minority Language Communities and the Web in Italy, in Brunn S.,
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Cirelli C., Graziano T. 2018, On line institutional place branding vs. Bottom-up co-created e-
narratives? The case of Mount Etna, in Albanese V., Greco V., Proto M. (eds) Geography and
the ICT. New Technologies & Geographical Research, Bononia University Press, Bologna, pp.
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Graziano T. 2018, E-spaces of migration: Online narratives, digital connections and
practices of self-representation among Italians living abroad, Albanese V., Greco V., Proto M.,
Geography and the ICT. New Technologies & Geographical Research, Bononia University Press,
Bologna, pp. 19-32. ISSN 2385-1694. ISBN 978-88-6923-327-2.
Graziano T. 2018, Migratory circular spaces in Southern Italy historial centres, XIII
Rapporto della Società Geografica Italiana – Per una geopolitica delle migrazioni. Nuove letture
dell’altrove tra noi, Società Geografica Italiana, Roma, pp. 89-91. ISBN 978-88-88692-96-8.
Graziano T. 2018 Creative industries, cities, imageries. Narratives and territorial effects,
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Ruggiero L, Graziano T. 2018, Culture as a common? Strategies of resistance and bottom-up
reappropriation in a Mediterranean city, ACME – An International Journal for Critical
Geographies,7, 2, pp. 292-324. ISSN: 1492-9732.
Aru S., Graziano T. 2018,“The European "reception" system for asylum seekers between
formal and informal spaces, Memorie della Società di studi geografici, 16, pp. 271-278.
Graziano T. 2018, Migrant Religious signs in Catania (Italy), in XIII Rapporto della Società
Geografica Italiana – Per una geopolitica delle migrazioni. Nuove letture dell’altrove tra noi,
Società Geografica Italiana, Roma, pp. 115-117. ISBN 978-88-88692-96-8.
Graziano T. 2018, Interwoven Chaos: mental maps of Italian-speaker migrants, in XIII
Rapporto della Società Geografica Italiana – Per una geopolitica delle migrazioni. Nuove letture
dell’altrove tra noi, Società Geografica Italiana, Roma, pp. 119-122. ISBN 978-88-88692-96-8.
Graziano T. 2018, Migrant networks, XIII Rapporto della Società Geografica Italiana – Per
una geopolitica delle migrazioni. Nuove letture dell’altrove tra noi, Società Geografica Italiana,
Roma, pp. 122-128. ISBN 978-88-88692-96-8.
Cirelli C., Graziano T.,Nicosia E., Porto C.M. 2018, Retailscape in Marche urban areas
between old and new formats: innovation challenges, Viganoni L. (ed.), Commercio, consumo e
città. Quaderno di lavoro, Franco Angeli, Milano, pp. 193-201. ISBN 978-88-917-3479-2.
Korson, C. 2018. Global disorder in the undead world: Teaching geopolitics with
zombies, Journal of Geography. DOI: 10.1080/00221341.2018.1518991
Korson, C. 2018. The common destiny framework, citizenship and customary governance in
Kanaky/New Caledonia, Forum for Development Studies, Special Issue.
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Korson, C. 2018. (Re)balancing inequality through citizenship, voter eligibility and islandian
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Korson, C. 2018. Framing social rebalancing, national identity, and victimhood in
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Li, W., Bakshi, K., Tan, Y., & Huang, X. 2018. Policies for Recruiting Talented Professionals
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K., Earley, R., Wang, Y., Wu, J., Li, F., You, N., Fox, J., Aragon, J.D. (2018). Guidelines for
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Sikka, G. & Mathur, V. 2018. Gender Analysis of Post Resettlement Transformation in
Livelihood Opportunities at Sardar Sarovar Project Resettlement Sites, India. Journal of Land
and Rural Studies, Vol.6, No.1, SAGE Publishing, ISSN: 23210249
Yenneti, K. 2018 Fostering partnerships for ‘climate-smart cities’, Shashwat, 4 (5): 174-179.
Yenneti, K. 2018 Making ‘Climate-Smart’ Indian Cites. A Very Short Policy Brief, Australia
India Institute, 6: 1-16 https://www.aii.unimelb.edu.au/publications/very-short-policy-brief-
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Yenneti, K. and Kasamsetty, S. 2018 Building Integrated Solar Technologies (BIST) for a City’s
Best, Energy Manager, 10 (4): 6-12.
Yenneti, K., Santamouris, M., Prasad, D., and Ding, L. 2018. Cooling Cities: Strategies and
Technologies to Mitigate Urban Heat, Outcomes Document, Cooperative Research Centre for
Low Carbon Living (CRCLCL),
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2017
Andersson, L, Caretta, M.A. 2017. Arsenic poisoning in rural Bangladesh: an intersectional analysis of impacts on women. wH2o The Journal of Gender and Water, 6, 4-23
Baghel, R., and L. Stepan. 2017. Contextualising the Anthropocene: The cultures, practices and politics of water knowledge in Asia. In Water, Knowledge and the environment in Asia: Epistemologies, practices, locales, eds. R. Baghel, L. Stepan, and J. K. W. Hill. London: Routledge.
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Yenneti, K., Day, R., and Golubchikov, O. (2016). Spatial Justice and the Land Politics of Renewables: Dispossessing Vulnerable Communities through Solar Energy Mega-Projects. Geoforum, 76, 90-99 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2016.09.004
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