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Spatial Variations of Village-Level Environmental Variables from Satellite Big Data and Implications for Public Health-Related Sustainable Development Goalsopen access

Authors
Liu, XueKim, RockliZhang, WeixingGuan, Weihe WendySubramanian, S., V
Issue Date
8월-2022
Publisher
MDPI
Keywords
SDG 3; child malnutrition; correlation analysis; environment variables; public health; satellite big data; spatial variations; sustainable development goals (SDGs)
Citation
SUSTAINABILITY, v.14, no.16
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Journal Title
SUSTAINABILITY
Volume
14
Number
16
URI
https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/143820
DOI
10.3390/su141610450
ISSN
2071-1050
Abstract
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) include 17 interlinked goals designed to be a blueprint for the world's nations to achieve a better and more sustainable future, and the specific SDG 3 is a public health-related goal to ensure healthy living and promote well-being for all population groups. To facilitate SDG planning, implementation, and progress monitoring, many SDG indicators have been developed. Based on the United Nations General Assembly resolutions, SDG indicators need to be disaggregated by geographic locations and thematic environmental and socioeconomic characteristics for achieving the most accurate planning and progress assessment. High-resolution data such as those captured at the village level can provide comparatively more precise insights into the different socioeconomic and environmental factors relevant to SDGs, therefore enabling more effective sustainable development decision-making. Using India as our study area and the child malnutrition indicators stunting, underweight, and wasting as examples of public health-related SDG indicators, we have demonstrated a process to effectively derive environmental variables at the village level from satellite big datasets on a cloud platform for SDG research and applications. Spatial analysis of environmental variables regarding vegetation, climate, and terrain have shown spatial grouping patterns across the entire study area, with each village group having different statistics. Correlation analysis between these environmental variables and stunting, underweight, and wasting indicators show a meaningful relationship between these indicators and vegetation index, land surface temperature, rainfall, elevation, and slope. Identifying the spatial variation patterns of environmental variables at the village level and their correlations with child malnutrition indicators can be an invaluable tool to facilitate a clearer understanding of the causes of child malnutrition and to improve area-specific SDG 3 implementation planning. This analysis can also provide meaningful support in assessing and monitoring SDG implementation progress at the village level by spatially predicting SDG indicators using available socioeconomic and environmental independent variables. The methodology used in this study has the potential to be applied to other similar regions, especially low-to-middle income countries where a high number of children are severely affected by malnutrition, as well as to other environmentally related SDGs, such as Goal 1 (No Poverty) and Goal 2 (Zero Hunger).
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