TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kleespies, Matthias
A1  - Dierkes, Paul
T1  - The importance of the sustainable development goals to students of environmental and sustainability studies - a global survey in 41 countries
T2  - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
N2  - To fight the global problems of humanity, the United Nations has adopted 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). To achieve these goals, it is necessary that future decision-makers and stakeholders in society consider these goals to be important. Therefore, in this study, we examined how important students in 41 countries directly related to the environmental sector rated each of the 17 SDGs. Based on the analysis of these ratings, it was possible to categorize the SDGs into three higher-level factors that reflect the three pillars of sustainability (social, economic, environmental). These three pillars are considered to be of varying importance in different countries. We also correlated the ratings of these higher-level factors with country-specific indicators, such as the Human Development Index. The correlations between the indicators and the higher-level factors revealed that in countries with higher indices, the SDGs are rated as less important compared to in countries with lower indices. These results provide stakeholders with important guidance on how the SDGs should be promoted in their country.
KW  - Environmental studies
KW  - Psychology
Y1  - 2022
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/69484
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-694840
SN  - 2662-9992
N1  - This study was partly supported by the Opel-Zoo foundation professorship in zoo biology from the “von Opel Hessische Zoostiftung”.
N1  - Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL.
VL  - 9
IS  - art. 218
SP  - 1
EP  - 9
PB  - Springer Nature
CY  - London
ER  -