ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to present the significance of spatially enabling the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and the opportunities it provides for the seventeen goals. The SDGs have emerged in a world where social, economic, and environmental complexities are intertwined across different geographic locations and at a time when technological advancements encourage the proliferation of real-time and location-based information. The global community has become interconnected across different geographies, scales, and sectors, driving us into the age of sustainable development. The integration of spatial enablement in the SDGs results in forming connections between the human, technical, and sustainability layers of society order to contextualize all dimensions of a Goal in its local, national, and global circumstances. The collective success of the global community depends on a holistic framework and transdisciplinary action plan that spatially enables the SDGs to deliver social well-being, economic growth, environmental vitality, and good governance.
