The Three Horizons for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is a novel participatory approach to co-create future sustainable scenarios for supporting the implementation of the United Nations 2030 Agenda. Whereas the approach has been applied to inform the design of global-scale sustainability scenarios based on regional perspectives, it has not been implemented to explore how local and regional scenarios can be connected across sites and scales to inform governance processes in the implementation of the SDGs. This study applies an adapted version of the Three Horizons for the SDGs approach in four sites at regional and local scales in Spanish drylands to explore its potential to support policy coherence at multiple governance scales for advancing SDG implementation through dialogue between actors from multiple sectors. We conducted four two-day in-person workshops with diverse actors (n = 59) to explore their perceptions about the desired futures, current concerns, and strategies to achieve sustainable futures in the region. Results reveal 27 similar and nine dissimilar themes related to desired futures and current concerns, respectively. These findings provide common ground and highlight different contextual realities between sites that may serve as a basis for harmonizing policy priorities for advancing regional and local SDG implementation. The study also identifies 19 themes encompassing multiple strategies with the potential to establish associations across sites and scales to coordinate actions in alignment with the 2030 Agenda. We argue that the adapted version of the Three Horizons for the SDGs approach can serve as a tool to support coherent multi-scale governance needed to achieve global sustainability goals. We discuss lessons learned and limitations encountered from using the approach that provides guidance for future experiences.

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在地方和区域情景中应用“三视野”方法，以支持可持续发展目标实施中的政策一致性：来自干旱西班牙的见解


可持续发展目标（SDG）的三个视野是一种新颖的参与性方法，旨在共同创造未来的可持续情景，以支持联合国 2030 年议程的实施。虽然该方法已应用于根据区域视角设计全球范围的可持续发展情景，但尚未用于探索如何跨地点和规模连接地方和区域情景，从而为实施可持续发展目标的治理流程提供信息。本研究在西班牙旱地的区域和地方规模的四个地点应用了可持续发展目标三视野方法的改编版本，以探索其在多个治理规模上支持政策一致性的潜力，从而通过来自多个部门的参与者之间的对话推进可持续发展目标的实施。我们与不同的参与者（n = 59）举办了四场为期两天的面对面研讨会，探讨他们对该地区期望的未来、当前的担忧以及实现可持续未来的战略的看法。结果揭示了 27 个相似主题和 9 个不同主题，分别与期望的未来和当前的担忧相关。这些发现提供了共同点，并强调了不同地点之间的不同背景现实，可以作为协调政策优先事项以推进区域和地方可持续发展目标实施的基础。该研究还确定了涵盖多种战略的 19 个主题，这些主题有可能建立跨地点和跨规模的关联，以根据 2030 年议程协调行动。我们认为，可持续发展目标“三个视野”方法的改编版本可以作为支持实现全球可持续发展目标所需的连贯多尺度治理的工具。 我们讨论使用该方法所吸取的经验教训和遇到的局限性，为未来的经验提供指导。