Publications by authors named "David Collste"
Article Synopsis
- * A study using a system dynamics model shows that the increasing costs and reduced profits from irrigation water scarcity could limit further agricultural development by 2040.
- * Sustainable management of the Rio Grande Basin's water resources and alternative energy solutions are essential to address the challenges posed by agricultural growth and its impact on water availability and energy demand.
Harvesting synergy from sustainable development goal interactions.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
November 2019
As countries pursue sustainable development across sectors as diverse as health, agriculture, and infrastructure, sectoral policies interact, generating synergies that alter their effectiveness. Identifying those synergies ex ante facilitates the harmonization of policies and provides an important lever to achieve the sustainable development goals (SDGs) of the United Nations 2030 Agenda. However, identifying and quantifying these synergetic interactions are infeasible with traditional approaches to policy analysis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCoherently addressing the 17 Sustainable Development Goals requires planning tools that guide policy makers. Given the integrative nature of the SDGs, we believe that integrative modelling techniques are especially useful for this purpose. In this paper, we present and demonstrate the use of the new System Dynamics based iSDG family of models.
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