SDG 15: Life on Land
Published 01 August, 2023
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015, provides a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future. At its heart are the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are an urgent call for action by all countries - developed and developing - in a global partnership.
On the 15th of the 17 SDGs: Life on Land — Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss, a collection of articles from Regional Sustainability follows:
2024
- Assessment of vegetation cover changes and the contributing factors in the Al-Ahsa Oasis using Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI)
- Association between people's attitudes towards human-elephant conflict and their locational, demographic, and socio-economic characteristics in Buxa Tiger Reserve and its adjoining area, India
- Assessing the role of forest resources in improving rural livelihoods in West Bengal of India
- Economic significance and environmental impacts of the Song Dam Drinking Water Project (SDDWP) in Garhwal Himalaya
- Encouraging circular economy and sustainable environmental practices by addressing waste management and biomass energy production
- Relationship between drought and soil erosion based on the normalized differential water index (NDWI) and revised universal soil loss equation (RUSLE) model
- Preserving environmental quality of ecotourism sites through community participation in Purulia District of West Bengal, India
2023
- Overview of priorities, threats, and challenges to biodiversity conservation in the southern Philippines
- Human-wildlife conflict: A bibliometric analysis during 1991–2023
- Examination of the poverty-environmental degradation nexus in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Research on the implementation of the convention on biological diversity among the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation countries
- Expert elicitations of smallholder agroforestry practices in Seychelles: A SWOT-AHP analysis
- Impact of forest governance and enforcement on deforestation and forest degradation at the district level: A study in West Bengal State, India
- A tale of duality: Community perceptions towards the ecotourism impacts on Simien Mountains National Park, Ethiopia
- Identifying eco-functional zones on the Chinese Loess Plateau using ecosystem service bundles
- Spatio-temporal variation of water conservation and its impact factors on the southern slope of Qilian Mountains
- Evaluating rural sustainable land use from a system perspective based on the ecosystem service value
2022
- Land tenure security, place satisfaction and loyalty in the peri-urban area of Ibadan City, Nigeria
- Any alternatives to rice? Ethnobotanical insights into the dietary use of edible plants by the Higaonon tribe in Bukidnon Province, the Philippines
- GIS-based assessment of land-agroforestry potentiality of Jharkhand State, India
- Assessing and mapping soil erosion risk zone in Ratlam District, central India
- Regional landscape transformation and sustainability of the rural homegarden agroforestry system in the Chengdu Plain, China
- A bibliometric analysis of ecotourism: A safeguard strategy in protected areas
- Use of the knowledge, attitude, and practice (KAP) model to examine sustainable agriculture in Thailand
2021
- Exploring the nexus between Indian forestry and the Sustainable Development Goals
- Biodiversity arks in the Anthropocene
- Coupling analysis of short-term weather and runoff in an arid lake basin of China
- Sustainable use of wildlife resources in Central Asia
- Co-management of small-scale fishery in the Tonle Sap Lake, Cambodia
- Contribution of non-timber forest products to the livelihoods of the forest-dependent communities around the Khadimnagar National Park in northeastern Bangladesh
- Digital mapping of soil salinization based on Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 data combined with machine learning algorithms
2020