The COVID‐19 Pandemic Not Only Poses Challenges, but Also Opens Opportunities for Sustainable Transformation

dc.bibliographicCitation.firstPagee2021EF001996eng
dc.bibliographicCitation.issue7eng
dc.bibliographicCitation.volume9eng
dc.contributor.authorPradhan, Prajal
dc.contributor.authorSubedi, Daya Raj
dc.contributor.authorKhatiwada, Dilip
dc.contributor.authorJoshi, Kirti Kusum
dc.contributor.authorKafle, Sagar
dc.contributor.authorChhetri, Raju Pandit
dc.contributor.authorDhakal, Shobhakar
dc.contributor.authorGautam, Ambika Prasad
dc.contributor.authorKhatiwada, Padma Prasad
dc.contributor.authorMainaly, Jony
dc.contributor.authorOnta, Sharad
dc.contributor.authorPandey, Vishnu Prasad
dc.contributor.authorParajuly, Keshav
dc.contributor.authorPokharel, Sijal
dc.contributor.authorSatyal, Poshendra
dc.contributor.authorSingh, Devendra Raj
dc.contributor.authorTalchabhadel, Rocky
dc.contributor.authorTha, Rupesh
dc.contributor.authorThapa, Bhesh Raj
dc.contributor.authorAdhikari, Kamal
dc.contributor.authorAdhikari, Shankar
dc.contributor.authorChandra Bastakoti, Ram
dc.contributor.authorBhandari, Pitambar
dc.contributor.authorBharati, Saraswoti
dc.contributor.authorBhusal, Yub Raj
dc.contributor.authorBahadur BK, Man
dc.contributor.authorBogati, Ramji
dc.contributor.authorKafle, Simrin
dc.contributor.authorKhadka, Manohara
dc.contributor.authorKhatiwada, Nawa Raj
dc.contributor.authorLal, Ajay Chandra
dc.contributor.authorNeupane, Dinesh
dc.contributor.authorNeupane, Kaustuv Raj
dc.contributor.authorOjha, Rajit
dc.contributor.authorRegmi, Narayan Prasad
dc.contributor.authorRupakheti, Maheswar
dc.contributor.authorSapkota, Alka
dc.contributor.authorSapkota, Rupak
dc.contributor.authorSharma, Mahashram
dc.contributor.authorShrestha, Gitta
dc.contributor.authorShrestha, Indira
dc.contributor.authorShrestha, Khadga Bahadur
dc.contributor.authorTandukar, Sarmila
dc.contributor.authorUpadhyaya, Shyam
dc.contributor.authorKropp, Jürgen P.
dc.contributor.authorBhuju, Dinesh Raj
dc.date.accessioned2022-01-19T11:10:12Z
dc.date.available2022-01-19T11:10:12Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractThe COVID-19 pandemic has impacted social, economic, and environmental systems worldwide, slowing down and reversing the progress made in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). SDGs belong to the 2030 Agenda to transform our world by tackling humankind's challenges to ensure well-being, economic prosperity, and environmental protection. We explore the potential impacts of the pandemic on SDGs for Nepal. We followed a knowledge co-creation process with experts from various professional backgrounds, involving five steps: online survey, online workshop, assessment of expert's opinions, review and validation, and revision and synthesis. The pandemic has negatively impacted most SDGs in the short term. Particularly, the targets of SDG 1, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 13 have and will continue to have weakly to moderately restricting impacts. However, a few targets of SDG 2, 3, 6, and 11 could also have weakly promoting impacts. The negative impacts have resulted from impeding factors linked to the pandemic. Many of the negative impacts may subside in the medium and long terms. The key five impeding factors are lockdowns, underemployment and unemployment, closure of institutions and facilities, diluted focus and funds for non-COVID-19-related issues, and anticipated reduction in support from development partners. The pandemic has also opened a window of opportunity for sustainable transformation, which is short-lived and narrow. These opportunities are lessons learned for planning and action, socio-economic recovery plan, use of information and communication technologies and the digital economy, reverse migration and “brain gain,” and local governments' exercising authorities.eng
dc.description.versionpublishedVersioneng
dc.identifier.urihttps://oa.tib.eu/renate/handle/123456789/7852
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.34657/6893
dc.language.isoengeng
dc.publisherHoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwelleng
dc.relation.doihttps://doi.org/10.1029/2021EF001996
dc.relation.essn2328-4277
dc.relation.ispartofseriesEarth's future 9 (2021), Nr. 7eng
dc.rights.licenseCC BY-NC 4.0 Unportedeng
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/eng
dc.subjectCOVID-19eng
dc.subjectimpactseng
dc.subjectNepaleng
dc.subjectopportunitieseng
dc.subjectpandemiceng
dc.subjectsustainable developmenteng
dc.subjectsustainable transformationeng
dc.subject.ddc550eng
dc.titleThe COVID‐19 Pandemic Not Only Poses Challenges, but Also Opens Opportunities for Sustainable Transformationeng
dc.typearticleeng
dc.typeTexteng
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.journalTitleEarth's futureeng
tib.accessRightsopenAccesseng
wgl.contributorPIKeng
wgl.subjectGeowissenschafteneng
wgl.typeZeitschriftenartikeleng
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