Forests provide vital ecosystem services crucial to human well-being and sustainable development, and have an important role to play in achieving the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations 2030 Agenda. Little attention, however, has yet focused on how efforts to achieve the SDGs will impact forests and forest-related livelihoods, and how these impacts may, in turn, enhance or undermine the contributions of forests to climate and development. This book discusses the conditions that influence how SDGs are implemented and prioritised, and provides a systematic, multidisciplinary global assessment of interlinkages among the SDGs and their targets, increasing understanding of potential synergies and unavoidable trade-offs between goals. Ideal for academic researchers, students and decision-makers interested in sustainable development in the context of forests, this book will provide invaluable knowledge for efforts undertaken to reach the SDGs. This title is available as Open Access via Cambridge Core.

Table of Contents:
Introduction; 1. SDG 1: end poverty – impacts of social protection, tenure security and building resilience on forests; 2. SDG 2: zero hunger – challenging the hegemony of monoculture agriculture for forests and people; 3. SDG 3: good health and well-being – framing targets to maximise co-benefits for forests and people; 4. SDG 4: quality education and forests – 'The Golden Thread'; 5. SDG 5: gender equality – a precondition for sustainable forestry; 6. SDG 6: clean water and sanitation – forest-related targets and their impacts on forests and people; 7. SDG 7: affordable and clean energy – how access to affordable and clean energy affects forests and forest-based livelihoods; 8. SDG 8: decent work and economic growth – potential impacts on forests and forest-dependent livelihoods; 9. SDG 9: industry, innovation and infrastructure – anticipating the potential impacts on forests and forest-based livelihoods; 10. SDG 10: reduced inequalities – an environmental justice perspective to implications on forests and people; 11. SDG 11: sustainable cities and communities – impacts on forests and forest-based livelihoods; 12. SDG 12: responsible consumption and production – potential benefits and impacts on forests and livelihoods; 13. SDG 13: Climate action – impacts on forests and people; 14. SDG 14: life below water – impacts on mangroves; 15. SDG 15: Life on land – the central role of forests in sustainable development; 16. SDG 16: peace, justice and strong institutions – a political ecology perspective; 17. SDG 17: partnerships for the goals – focus on forest finance and partnerships; 18. Synergies, trade-offs and contextual conditions shaping impacts of the sustainable development goals on forests and people; 19. The impacts of the sustainable development goals on forest and people – conclusions and the way forward.