Abstract
Implementing the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) requires meeting 169 targets at the municipality level. Meanwhile, municipalities also have issues that they should address for residents. Small municipalities may lack access to the necessary human resources and funds to treat new issues regarding SDGs. In this study, new ideas for localizing the goals and targets for connecting municipalities' policies were proposed. First, the relationships among forest management policies and the national SDGs were investigated in Kobe, Japan as a case study. Using expert judgement, 11 goals and 20 targets regarding forest management policies were extracted. Next, as the extracted goals and targets include many foci, selected goals and targets were translated into descriptive sentences that the municipalities could easily apply to their forest management policies. The relationship among Kobe's forest management policies and national SDGs was visualized through these processes. In addition, the relative importance of each goal was weighted using a questionnaire and thinking of a pairwise comparison to clarify the priorities of goals based on the summed consciousness of Kobe residents. The result revealed that water resources and biodiversity were significant goals for the residents.
