Geospatial Information to Support the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals

Introduction

Part 1: Eradication of Extreme Poverty, Food Security, Healthy Lives

1. SDG #1- Leveraging Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to Address Multidimensional Poverty

Lotfi Kaabi and Phoenix Eyre

2. SDG #2 - Technology for Regenerative and Sustainable Agriculture for Food Security

Mirriam Omala-Gauvin and Josphat Makanga

3. SDG #3 - Good Health:  The Heart of UN SDGs Enabled by GIS

Shirley Orr

4. SDG #4 - Mapping Learning beyond Indicators: GIS Impact for Achieving SDG 4 - Quality Education for All

Patricia Solis, Dara Carney-Nedelman, and Natalia Arruda

 Part 2: Innovations, Safe Communities, and Life of Dignity

5. SDG #5 - Leveraging Spatial Dimensions in Advancing Gender Equality

Nashon Adero

6. SDG #6 - Earth Observation for SDG 15 & SDG 6 Reporting in North African Countries

Fatma Trabelsi, Salsebil Bel Hadj Ali, Lamia Khemiri et al.

7. SDG #9 - Blueprint Strategies for Resilient Infrastructure, Inclusive Industrialization, and Innovation

Lincoln T. Satkunarajah

8. SDG #11 - Geospatial Information for Sustainable Cities

Rosario Casanova

Part 3: Climate, Food Consumption, and Environmental Sustainability

9. SDG #12 - Responsible Consumption and Production: Spatially Enabled Assessment of Resource Consumption, Waste Generation, and Production Patterns

Cecilia Wandiga, Shem O. Wandiga and Nashon Adero

10. SDG #13 - Global South Climate Change Protection Through GIS Study and Coordinated Sustainable Development Measures

Williams Ebhota and Pavel Y. Tabakov

 11. SDG #15- Disrupted Progress: The Impact of COVID-19 on Sustainable Development Goals in the Indian Subcontinent

Hishmi Jamil Husain, Saied Pirasteh, Tammineni Rajitha, Nasim Khonsari, and Mahdieh Shirmohammadi

 Part 4: Strong Institutions and Sustainable Development

12. SDG #16 - The Role of Spatially Enabled Governance in the Implementation of the SDGs      

Jeanne-Marie Col

13. Activation of SDG#17: Implementation through Partnerships and Technology

Etta D. Jackson

Biography

Etta D. Jackson has worked in the field of education for 25 years as a teacher, guidance counselor, and district desegregation coordinator in both New York and Wisconsin. Her passion for wanting to make a difference led her to the founding of The Institute for Conscious Global Change (ICGC), an international non-profit NGO organization in Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations. She now serves as the CEO of the Institute. This New York based organization was founded in 2007 to provide visual but tangible development solutions to support the unfinished mandate of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and now Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. With the aid of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Earth Observation and GeoDesign technologies, ICGC engages governments and citizens to develop integrated holistic and comprehensive development models for implementation in each country. Dr. Jackson is also the author of four books and many articles.

Amor Laaribi has over 30 years of extensive technical, managerial, and policy experience in the development, implementation and evaluation of geospatial information strategies, programs and projects in support of decision making and sustainable development. He joined the United Nations Statistics Division in 2000 to define and plan the priorities of the Division in geospatial information and to promote its use and integration with census/statistical information in developing countries. Dr. Laaribi has written/co-written two other books.