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Policy: Map the interactions between Sustainable Development Goals

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Måns Nilsson, Dave Griggs and Martin Visbeck present a simple way of rating relationships between the targets to highlight priorities for integrated policy.

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  1. Måns Nilsson is research director at the Stockholm Environment Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, and professor of the practice of policy analysis at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.,

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  2. Dave Griggs is professor in sustainable development at the Monash Sustainability Institute, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, and Warwick University, Coventry, UK.,

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  3. Martin Visbeck is professor in physical oceanography at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and Kiel University, Kiel, Germany.,

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Nilsson, M., Griggs, D. & Visbeck, M. Policy: Map the interactions between Sustainable Development Goals. Nature 534, 320–322 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/534320a

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