Fig. 2
From: Systems approaches for localising the SDGs: co-production of place-based case studies
Partners identified several systemic relationships that strengthen or weaken the competing narratives. Availability of university resources, driven largely by external public funding, determines the level of pressure for income generation, which in turn can lead to land development to alleviate financial pressure (B1 loop). University efforts to document environmental and health benefits of undeveloped land have shaped perceptions of the land and encourage further investment in such studies (R3 loop); however, such efforts are also threatened by university funding limitations, which are further constrained by decisions to forego income generation to preserve undeveloped land (B2 loop). Partners identified reputational benefits to the university as useful leverage point if certain pathways (dotted arrows) could be developed and strengthened. Translation of documented environmental and health benefits of undeveloped university land into reputational benefits could reinforce university decisions to invest in environmental studies (R4). Reputational benefits could also be leveraged for income generation through edu-tourism and other means (R5). Figure is adapted from Ong and Adikan 2018 [38]