Applying Systems-Based Approach to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Abstract:

As a result of achieving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations is a very complex program with many interconnected goals. It portrays sustainable development as the convergence of three interconnected systems' goals: environmental (or ecological), economic, and social. It demonstrates how each of the 17 SDGs can be defined as a primary goal attribute of the environmental, economic, or social system and how, as suggested by the systems approach, attempting to achieve all of these goals at the same time may involve significant trade-offs.

Achieving the United Nations' 17 Sustainable Development Goals as a coherent unit requires decision-makers to take a system-based approach, acknowledging that progress on one goal can undermine or enhance progress on others.

One of the best ways to approach sustainability development is to apply a systems approach.

Achieving the United Nations' 17 Sustainable Development Goals as a coherent unit requires decision-makers to take a system-based approach, acknowledging that progress on one goal can undermine or enhance progress on others. System complexity might vary. It is a method for comprehending how a system's essential parts interact. A system is a group of components that cooperate to produce something more than the sum of its parts.

This paper investigates the relationship between the systems approach and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It attempts to address sustainability goals by linking them as a system.