Abstract Linking UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Environmental Assessment (EA)—for mutual benefit—is an emerging topic within research and practice. Thus, knowledge and models of how to make the link are rather undiscovered and novel. This article aims to contribute to the understanding of linkages between the SDGs and EA in theory and practice. The output of the article is a framework for determining the level of integration of the SDGs and EA. In the framework, three main forms of integration are distinguished: non-integration, partial integration, and radical integration, and covering six levels of integration. A research agenda is proposed to strengthen the framework and to explore potentials and implications of the integration of the two concepts.

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将联合国可持续发展目标与环境评估联系起来：迈向概念框架

摘要 为了互惠互利，将联合国可持续发展目标 (SDG) 和环境评估 (EA) 联系起来是研究和实践中的一个新兴主题。因此，关于如何建立联系的知识和模型是相当未被发现和新颖的。本文旨在帮助理解 SDGs 与 EA 在理论和实践中的联系。文章的输出是一个框架，用于确定 SDG 和 EA 的整合程度。框架中区分了三种主要的整合形式：非整合、部分整合和激进整合，涵盖六个层面的整合。提出了一项研究议程，以加强框架并探索两个概念整合的潜力和影响。