Large-scale migration from rural to urban areas, and between countries, affects sustainable development at local, national, and regional levels. To strengthen urban and rural resilience to global challenges, Sustainable Development Goals Connectivity Dilemma: Land and Geospatial Information for Urban and Rural Resilience, brings together leading international geospatial experts to analyze the role of land and geospatial data infrastructures and services for achieving the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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Table of Contents:

I Setting the Scene
II Enhancing SDGs Connectivity and Disaster Resilience
III Supporting SDGs: Legal, Policies and Institutional Components and Capacity Building
IV Enabling Tools and Technical Components
V SDGs Perspectives: Current Practices and Case Studies

I SETTING THE SCENE
1) Sustainable Development Goals Connectivity Dilemma
2) SDGs Roadmap
3) Marriage of Opposites: Strategies for Public and Private Sectors Working Together in Land Tenure Reform Projects That Support SDGs
4) Spatially Enabling the SDGs

II ENHANCING SDGS CONNECTIVITY AND DISASTER RESILIENCE
5) Leveraging National Land and Geospatial Systems for Improved Disaster Resilience
6) Geospatial Information Technologies in Support of Disaster Risk Reduction, Mitigation and Resilience: Challenges and Recommendations
7) Application of Unmanned Aircraft Systems for Coastal Mapping and Resiliency

III SUPPORTING SDGS: LEGAL, POLICIES AND INSTITUTIONAL COMPONENTS AND CAPACITY BUILDING
8) Legal and Policy Paths for Effective Sustainable Development
9) Developing a Framework for National Institutional Arrangements in Geospatial Information Management
10) Considerations for Institutional Inter-connectivity
11) Implementing SDGs in Smart Cities Beyond Digital Tools
12) Spatial Enablement to Facilitate the New Urban Agenda Commitments for Sustainable Development
13) The Geospatial Capacity Building Ecosystem – Developing the Brainware for SDI

IV ENABLING TOOLS AND TECHNICAL COMPONENTS
14)  The Role of Geospatial Information Standards for Sustainable Development
15) Urban Analytics Data Infrastructure: Critical SDI for Measuring and Monitoring The National and Local Progress of SDGs
16) New Technical Enabling Tools for Data Acquisition and Maintenance of Topographic Data of Urban and High Mountain Areas to Support SDGs
17) Night-Light Remote Sensing: Data, Processing and Applications

V SDGS PERSPECTIVES: CURRENT PRACTICIES AND CASE STUDIES
18) Why and How Informal Development Should Be Formalized Quickly, Inclusively and Affordably – Experience From UN-ECE Region
19) SDGs and Geospatial Information Perspective From Nigeria – Africa
20) Openness and Community Geospatial Science for Monitoring SDGs – An Example From Tanzania
21) Modernizing Land Administration Systems to Support Sustainable Development Goals – Case Study of Victoria, Australia