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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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Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship

Education is crucial for global development and for the success of sustainable development, but this chapter discusses the content of learning to be good citizens in a new kind of world a world that is organized around the principles of sustainable development. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license.

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Introduction: Early Childhood Development for Sustainable Development

An introduction to the course The Best Start in Life: Early Childhood Development for Sustainable Development. This course is about children in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals. Children arguably have the most at stake in the changes that will result from the SDGs, and will be the generation to support the future of sustainable development. What does child development, particularly the period of development for the prenatal period to age 8, look like in different societal and…

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Early Care and Education Programs

Early care and education is an important sector for young children because it is where children spend the most time aside from their family worldwide, and it corresponds to the microsystem of Bronfenbrenner’s language. Infant and toddler care requires more adult attention and becomes a women’s economic issue as more and more mothers are employed and working full-time and organized childcare can help with that. Quality of care is divided into structural, which concern basic health…

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Our Ocean: A Finite Resource

The ocean has always sparked human curiosity. In the mid-20th century, people began to realize that there are limits to what humanity should do to our planet before it cannot support life as we know it, limits known as the planetary boundaries. The human population of the planet has reached 7 billion people and will soon approach 11 billion people. We rely on the earth to support us with ecosystem services; the ocean provides these services by regulating the climate system. The oceans have a…

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Universal Access to Education

In this chapter, Professor Jeffrey Sachs elaborates on a crucial SDG: SDG number 4, which calls for universal access to quality education for all. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license.

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Transparency and accountability

Transparency is defined as a flow of relevant, timely, and reliable information, information in the economic, financial, social, institution, and political arenas, which is accessible to all relevant stakeholders. When it's clunky and not accessible, it is sometimes referred to as "zombie transparency". Despite efforts towards more transparency, there is some narrowing of civic space as a means of accountability. Additionally, transparency alone cannot solve these issues, e.g. if…

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The Rights of Indigenous Populations

"Laudato Si' inspired all of us with its call for integral human development. And that means that we have to look at human development with a holistic approach, looking at all dimensions of development. And this framework means that we have to deal with individuals, with the inner development of everybody, not only taking care of the environment but also taking care of people. Our mandate to deal with a holistic approach to sustainable development is very much in tune with and in line…

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Introducing Sustainable Development

In this chapter, Professor Jeffrey Sachs introduces the course "Sustainable Development: the Post-Capitalist Order" and defines sustainable development. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license. Please give attribution to the SDG Academy.