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Regional and City-level SDG Indices

In this video, SDG Index Manager Guillaume Lafortune presents the case for local SDG measurement, and discusses the methodologies used to create regional and city-level indices that serve as a resource for local decision-making. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license.

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Rural Development

This chapter discusses differences among regions and the long run trends in rural poverty, and specifically the “great escape” from poverty that comes from the structural transformation out of agriculture into more diverse activities that comes with urbanization as mortality rates fall, and then fertility and birth rates fall and population growth rate declines, while in the meantime, the rural population growth rate rises. These rural population growth rates vary greatly globally,…

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Introducing SDG 2: Zero hunger

Around 11% of the world’s population is undernourished. SDG 2 aims to end hunger and all forms of malnutrition by 2030. Ensuring access to nutritious and sufficient food for all people globally requires changes to the global food and agriculture system. In this video, Donna Burnett from La Trobe Business School will tell you more about SDG 2 and the targets it has identified as important to ending hunger.

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Subject in Law vs. Object in Law

The distinction between the subject and object in law is a very important element in law because it sets the scene for much of the structural discrimination that has hence occurred. This is relevant to sustainable development and human rights as law has evolved with subject-hood for only some and object-hood for the rest. This has consequences in terms of colonization, indigenous peoples, and other subjects. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license.

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What Makes a City Sustainable?

This lecture explores sustainable cities as both green cities and resilient cities. This video is not available under a Creative Commons license and should not be considered open content. However, the video is freely available for viewing or sharing with individuals or groups for educational purposes, such as in a classroom, workshop, or training. Please give attribution to the SDG Academy. Content may not be used for commercial purposes.

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Introduction: The Oceans and Sustainable Development

The global ocean connects us all and provides our livelihoods, the oxygen we breathe, and transportation, among other things. The ocean is included in SDG 14. This course will try to provide a deeper understanding of the complex understanding of the ocean, environment, and climate system. Humans receive resources from the ocean, as well as risks. There will be weekly lectures on different topics, including the basic physics of ocean circulation, the ocean ecosystem, how the deep ocean works,…

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Disasters and Public Health

Disasters of various kinds, including hurricanes, monsoons, earthquakes, and landslides, poses a public health emergency. In this video, Professor K. Sinrath Reddy addresses how these disasters affect health and how global public health can prepare for these emergencies, especially with the impending increase of natural disasters with the rise of climate change. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license.

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Introducing SDG 1: No poverty

Around 10% of the world’s population still lives in extreme poverty, with the majority of the people living in extreme poverty living in sub-Saharan Africa. SDG 1 aims to eradicate extreme poverty globally by the year 2030, along with a number of other targets to end all forms of poverty. In this video, Professor Céline Louche from Audencia Business School will tell you more about different ways of understanding poverty and how the targets of SDG 1 address different forms of…

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Existing Structures of Global Governance

This chapter is about global governance and structures to deal with complex global environmental problems. Governance is a set of complex interactions between state and non-state actors at the global level.There are several key trends to look at in global environmental governance, including the increase in international environmental agreements and the involvement of more actors. These have led to fragmentation, segmentation, and decoupled decision making, as well as increasing inter-linkages…