The Driver-Pressure-Impact-Response (DPIR) framework was used as a base for constructing the Interactive SDG Tool for River Basins. DPIR helps identify the problems (pressures and impacts), their causes (drivers) and the solutions (responses).
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How to use
- This tool enables to visualise the interactions between relevant SDG targets for achieving sustainable development at the river basin scale.
- The tool, building on a scientific research, provides a qualitative SDG interlinkages model for river basins in general and a quantitative model tailored for China’s Luanhe River Basin, which is selected for a case study under the ‘Luanhe Living Lab’ project. See Methodology for details.
- The tool uses the causal framework of Drivers-Pressures-(State)-Impacts-Responses to guide the navigation of relevant SDG targets and their interactions at the basin scale.
- For viewing the data of indicators of relevant SDG targets:
- Select one from the four elements in the panel of “Drivers”, “Pressures”, “Impacts” and “Responses” by clicking the button.
- Select a year (2005-2018) from the time selection box and an indicator from the indicator selection box for display.
- The results of the selected indicator for 27 counties in the Luanhe River Basin are shown on the map.
- Move the cursor to a specific location (one of 27 counties in the Luanhe River Basin) on the map and left click to display the data for the location (shown on the upper left of the map). The full time-series data of the location is shown in a line graph above the map which can be exported as an image file by right-clicking the graph.
- Select another year or another indicator to display. - For visualising the interactions among relevant SDG targets at the basin scale:
- Move the cursor to a specific location on the map and double click to display the SDG interlinkages model for that location.
- The SDG interlinkages model is shown in a graph consisting of nodes and their connections.
- Select one node and double click to display its links with other nodes. Green links indicate positive relationships between the pairs of nodes, red links indicate negative relationships, and blue links indicate either positive or negative relationships depending on the conditions. Solid links indicate the quantified results based on the data of the location. Dotted links indicate the qualitative results of the SDG interlinkages model based on an expert survey, which are applied instead of the quantified data due to its unavailability.
- Each link has a direction indicated by an arrow showing the causal relationship from one node to another. Place the cursor on a link of the selected node to display the direction and strength (in absolute value of the corresponding correlation coefficient) of the link.
- Deselect the node by double-clicking. Repeat the process to display multiple selections.
- Use the “Visualisation Options” to show the results, e.g. select all links to display, or the out-degree linkages of the selected nodes (directed links pointing from the selected nodes to other nodes).
- Select another location from the small map on the upper right and double click to display the results.
- The visualisation graph can be exported as an image file by right-clicking the graph. - To go back to view the data of indicators, click one button from the panel of “Drivers”, “Pressures”, “Impacts” and “Responses”, or the time selection box or indicator selection box at the top of the page.
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Visualisation Options
Types of linkage
Note:
i) Each node represents a key element and its corresponding SDG target(s) for achieving sustainable development at the river basin scale.
ii) Each link has a direction indicated by an arrow showing the causal relationship from one node to another.
iii)The value (between -1 and 1) over the line (by putting the cursor on the line) indicates the strength of the link between the pair targets. When the links cannot be quantified due to data unavailability, qualitative results are provided
based on an expert survey. For qualitative results, “S” indicates a strong link and “W” indicates a weak link.
iv) Green links indicate positive relationships between the pairs of nodes, red links indicate negative relationships, and blue links indicate either positive or negative relationships depending on the conditions.
v) v) Solid links indicate the quantified results based on the data of the location. For data source, please see the PDF file here. Dotted links indicate the qualitative results based on an expert survey, which are applied instead of the quantified data due to its unavailability. See Methodology for details.
i) Each node represents a key element and its corresponding SDG target(s) for achieving sustainable development at the river basin scale.
ii) Each link has a direction indicated by an arrow showing the causal relationship from one node to another.
iii)The value (between -1 and 1) over the line (by putting the cursor on the line) indicates the strength of the link between the pair targets. When the links cannot be quantified due to data unavailability, qualitative results are provided
based on an expert survey. For qualitative results, “S” indicates a strong link and “W” indicates a weak link.
iv) Green links indicate positive relationships between the pairs of nodes, red links indicate negative relationships, and blue links indicate either positive or negative relationships depending on the conditions.
v) v) Solid links indicate the quantified results based on the data of the location. For data source, please see the PDF file here. Dotted links indicate the qualitative results based on an expert survey, which are applied instead of the quantified data due to its unavailability. See Methodology for details.