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National Sustainable Development Strategies

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Environmental resilience:

Minimizing environmental risks associated with disasters and quickly returning critical environmental and ecological services to functionality after a disaster while applying this learning process to reduce vulnerabilities and risks to future incidents (USEPA 2015).

Knowledge management:

Process of creating, sharing, and effectively using knowledge (Davenport 1994). It is a multidisciplinary approach to achieving the objectives and is particularly more relevant to the complex matter of sustainable development.

Social ecology:

Study of relationships between people and their environment. It takes a broad, interdisciplinary perspective that gives greater attention to the social, psychological, institutional, and cultural contexts of people-environment relations (Stokols 1992).

Synergy:

Interaction or cooperation of two or more organizations to produce a combined effect greater than the sum of their individual effects. In the context of the...

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    Saleem Mustafa, Sitti Raehanah M. Shaleh & Abentin Estim

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Mustafa, S., Shaleh, S.R.M., Estim, A. (2020). National Sustainable Development Strategies. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A., Brandli, L., Özuyar, P., Wall, T. (eds) Partnerships for the Goals. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71067-9_35-1

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