The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) recognise the importance of action across all scales to achieve a sustainable future. To contribute to overall national- and global-scale SDG achievement, local communities need to focus on a locally-relevant subset of goals and understand potential future pathways for key drivers which influence local sustainability. We developed a participatory method to co-create local socioeconomic pathways by downscaling the SDGs and driving forces of the shared socioeconomic pathways (SSPs) via a local case study in southern Australia through contextual analysis and community engagement. We linked the SSPs and SDGs by identifying driving forces and describing how they affect the achievement of local SDGs. We co-created six local socioeconomic pathways with the local community which track towards futures with different levels of fulfilment of the SDGs and each encompasses a narrative storyline incorporating locally-specific ideas from the community. We tested and validated the local pathways with the community. This method extends the SSPs in two dimensions–into the broader field of sustainability via the SDGs, and by recontextualizing them at the local scale. The local socioeconomic pathways can contribute to achieving local sustainability goals from the bottom up in alignment with global initiatives.

可持续发展目标 (SDG) 认识到在各个层面采取行动以实现可持续未来的重要性。为了促进国家和全球范围内总体可持续发展目标的实现，当地社区需要关注与当地相关的目标子集，并了解影响当地可持续发展的关键驱动因素的潜在未来路径。我们开发了一种参与式方法，通过情境分析和社区参与，通过澳大利亚南部的当地案例研究，缩小可持续发展目标和共享社会经济路径（SSP）的驱动力，共同创建当地社会经济路径。我们通过确定驱动力并描述它们如何影响当地可持续发展目标的实现，将 SSP 和可持续发展目标联系起来。我们与当地社区共同创建了六种当地社会经济途径，这些途径以不同程度的可持续发展目标实现为目标，每条途径都包含一个融入当地社区特定想法的叙事故事情节。我们与社区一起测试并验证了当地的途径。这种方法将 SSP 扩展到两个维度：通过可持续发展目标将 SSP 扩展到更广泛的可持续发展领域，并在当地范围内对其进行重新背景化。当地的社会经济途径可以有助于自下而上实现当地的可持续发展目标，与全球倡议保持一致。