2021 年 42 巻 p. 179-191
This paper discusses the issues and challenges of sustainable development goals (SDGs) under the novel corona virus diseases (COVID-19) pandemic as a crisis of human security. As the pandemic impacts on the progress on SDGs multi-dimensionally, our global society should utilize the goals as our common compass to overcome the global crisis. To achieve ‘Leave no one behind’, the motto underpinning SDGs, it is essential to focus on vulnerable people and states/regions. On the front line, community and local government play critical role for the responses to COVID-19. While SDGs reflect a global agenda, their issues and challenges typically emerge in local context. As the case, agriculture of Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan depends on labour power from abroad because of its aging society. The pandemic highlights ways in which local contexts serve as battlegrounds for global issues, a lesson which could inform global society’s SDG strategy. Namely, localization of SDGs is an essential bottom-up approach to achieve the goals.
