BACKGROUND Localisation is a pervasive challenge in achieving sustainable development. Contextual particularities may render generalized strategies to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) unfeasible, impractical, or ineffective. Furthermore, many localities are resource- and data-poor, limiting applicability of the global SDG indicator framework. Tools to enable local actors to make sense of complex problems, communicate this understanding, and act accordingly hold promise in their ability to improve results. AIM Systems approaches can help characterise local causal systems, identify useful leverage points, and foster participation needed to localise and catalyse development action. Critically, such efforts must be deeply rooted in place, involving local actors in mapping decision-processes and causation within local physical, social and policy environments. Given that each place has a unique geographical or spatial extent and therein lies its unique characters and problems, we term these activities "placially explicit." We describe and reflect on a process used to develop placially explicit, systems-based (PESB) case studies on issues that intersect with and impact urban health and wellbeing, addressing the perspectives of various actors to produce place-based models and insights that are useful for SDG localisation. METHODS Seven case studies were co-produced by one or more Partners with place-based knowledge of the case study issue and a Systems Thinker. In each case, joint delineation of an appropriate framing was followed by iterative dialogue cycles to uncover key contextual factors, with attention to institutional and societal structures and paradigms and the motivations and constraints of other actors. Casual loop diagrams (CLDs) were iteratively developed to capture complex narratives in a simple visual way. RESULTS Case study development facilitated transfer of local knowledge and development of systems thinking capacity. Partners reported new insights, including a shifting of problem frames and corresponding solution spaces to higher systems levels. Such changes led partners to re-evaluate their roles and goals, and thence to new actions and strategies. CLD-based narratives also proved useful in ongoing communications. CONCLUSION Co-production of PESB case studies are a useful component of transdisciplinary toolsets for local SDG implementation, building the capacity of local actors to explore complex problems, identify new solutions and indicators, and understand the systemic linkages inherent in SDG actions across sectors and scales.

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可持续发展目标本地化的系统方法：基于场所的案例研究的联合制作。

背景技术本地化是实现可持续发展的普遍挑战。上下文的特殊性可能使实现可持续发展目标（SDG）的通用策略不可行，不切实际或无效。此外，许多地方资源和数据贫乏，从而限制了全球可持续发展目标指标框架的适用性。使当地参与者能够理解复杂问题，传达这种理解并相应采取行动的工具有望改善结果。AIM Systems的方法可以帮助表征当地的因果系统，确定有用的杠杆点，并促进本地化和促进发展行动所需的参与。至关重要的是，这种努力必须深深扎根，包括让地方参与者参与地方实体，社会和政策环境。考虑到每个地方都有独特的地理或空间范围，并在其中存在其独特的特征和问题，我们将这些活动称为“特别明确”。我们描述并反思一个过程，该过程用于开发与城市健康和福祉相交并影响城市健康的问题的基于系统的明确（PESB）案例研究，探讨各种行为者的观点以产生基于地点的模型和见解用于SDG本地化。方法一个或多个合作伙伴共同制作了七个案例研究，他们具有案例研究问题的基于位置的知识和系统思想家。在每种情况下，都要共同划定适当的框架，然后再进行迭代对话循环，以发现关键的背景因素，关注制度和社会结构与范式，以及其他参与者的动机和约束。迭代开发了休闲回路图（CLD），以简单的视觉方式捕获复杂的叙述。结果案例研究的发展促进了本地知识的转移和系统思维能力的发展。合作伙伴报告了新的见解，包括将问题框架和相应的解决方案空间转移到更高的系统级别。这种变化促使合作伙伴重新评估其角色和目标，然后重新评估新的行动和策略。事实证明，基于CLD的叙述在进行中的交流中很有用。结论合作编写PESB案例研究是跨学科工具集的有用组成部分，可用于本地SDG实施，可增强本地参与者探索复杂问题的能力，