SDG Academy Library

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Why Should We Care About Climate Change?

Explains the difference between natural climate change of the past and man-made climate change today, introducing the hockey stick graph.

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Paleoclimate Evidence of Climate Change

Looks at climate change in the historical context, explaining why the rate of climate change today is unprecedented.

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Q&A | Sue Parnell | 2016 Dec. 2

Sue Parnell answers questions on urban theory and urban history.

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Q&A | Jeffery Sachs | 2016 Sep. 15

Jeffery Sachs answers questions about the resource curse, the worldwide energy system transformation, social conditions and the extractive industry sector.

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Professional Profiles: Sustainable Tourism Sector

This chapter defines the core competencies necessary to create tools that support the chain of agri-food innovation in the Mediterranean, and the agri-food entrepreneur. A food tech startup-er is someone who innovates food from farm to fork; they must be open-minded, collaborative, and have a beginner’s mindset, approaching each problem with creativity and curiosity. Women need to be encouraged to participate in these networks more. The fields that these startups are focusing on are…

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From Mine to Mobile Phone: Market, Players, and Extraction Process in Mining

This video explains the differences between mining and oil and gas extraction notably that extraction of oil (hydrocarbon exploitation) produces water as waste, while mineral extraction results in the removal/waste of the matrices in which minerals are embedded. Mined products also vary in value. The chapter also addresses why mining companies diversify their portfolio and exploit different minerals. Finally, it provides an overview of the start and the end of the most recent commodity…

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Investing in Investing

In this chapter, Paul Collier looks at how to cover money that is saved into sustained levels of prosperity by domestic investment, or what he calls investing in investing. Developing countries must invest domestically in order to get returns on their investments. There are four components to investing in investing that Professor Collier describes, including what the public sector does with its own investments, building capacity for private investment, building the financial system, and…

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Designing Practical Interventions: The Case of Millennium Villages

This lecture uses the case of the Millennium Villages to examine how a differential diagnostic program can improve well-being in communities.

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Agroforestry Systems

Agroforestry systems (SAF) can take various forms and combinations of species and strategies of cultivation of the species of interest, but in general is a form of land use that combines cultivation of woodland species with temporary and perennial agricultural crops along with animals. This management seeks to increase the yield of a territory space that has been cultivated by producing agricultural crops with forest crops along with animal species, with benefits that include enriching depleted…