An intersectional focus on inequality and inequity in the framework of the 2030 Agenda

Abstract

This qualitative study proposes an intersectional focus as a research methodology for analysing the targets of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), which describe situations of inequality and inequity in access, use, and as rights, through a holistic, intersectional focus. Its aim is to identify the dimensions underpinning the concept of inequality in the framework of the targets of the 2030 Agenda, and, based on a systematic analysis, to search for the possible degree of interrelation between the environmental, economic and social dimensions to identify possible indicators that currently comprise the inequality dimension of human development. This requires a methodological focus that goes beyond the transversal configuration of the SDGs to enable the search for a potential interconnection between different elements that provide answers and establish synergies, in order to identify the impact of each of them in the social, environmental and economic sphere. An intersectional focus is, therefore, an appropriate analytical tool for studying complex questions that can only be explained with a high degree of rationality, adding the environmental dimension to the others after performing the analysis to shape the concept of inequality.