BLOG: PhD Reihaneh Bandari describes the research and challenges to identify local sustainability goals in her Goulburn-Murray case study
BLOG: Katrina Szetey from The Local SDGs Program writes about her journey and challenges in co-authoring The Forrest and District Plan with Emma Ashton, Sharon Bradshaw plus invaluable contributions from James Myatt, Martin Butcher, Ebony Hickey and the Forrest and District community.
Katrina Szetey provides an insight into her research activities for The Local SDGS Program during the COVID-19 lockdown. We soon discover that despite a pause on community engagements, her academic commitments have been eventful and if anything busier than usual.
In this Disruptr article we address the unprecedented environmental and socio-economic impact of bushfires and storms on regional communities now compounded by the devastating coronavirus.
COVID-19 is manifesting many socio-economic and environmental challenges for government, business and local communities, therefore impeding their commitments to SDGs.
A contextual analysis to determine the most applicable SDGs for local communities in this significant agricultural and economic region of Australia.