Ideas of Poverty and Wellbeing
Corporate Social Responsibility in the Water Sector (STWI)
Global Governance for Sustainable Development

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Global Governance for Sustainable Development

In this chapter, Professor Sachs focuses on the new means of global governance necessary for sustainable development and global peace. He addresses two aspects of this challenge: how can we make a global learning society where we accelerate our ability to understand, know, and direct resources towards solutions; and how can we keep the peace and insure that the UN and other global institutions do the job they are tasked to do? Goal orientation, dynamic planning, multidimensional systems…

Global Governance for Sustainable Development
Environmental Planning, Management and the Politics of Change
Corporate Social Responsibility in the Water Sector (STWI)

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Corporate Social Responsibility in the Water Sector (STWI)

In this case study, Emilio Guzman shares some insights and thoughts about corporate social responsibility and sustainability being integrated in a business partnerships and collaborating together with the private sector to move the sustainability agenda together. 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…

Corporate Social Responsibility in the Water Sector (STWI)
Business as Usual Versus Sustainable Development
Environmental Planning, Management and the Politics of Change

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Environmental Planning, Management and the Politics of Change

This video is part of Module 7: How can the urban environment be protected and cities be made resilient? environmental planning, management and the politics of change, urban sprawl, how cities can move to be more compact. 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…

Environmental Planning, Management and the Politics of Change
Social Communication for Social Change
Business as Usual Versus Sustainable Development

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Business as Usual Versus Sustainable Development

This lecture introduces two paths for the future: the Business as Usual path and the Sustainable Development path. It examines the major negative impacts of the Business as Usual path and puts an emphasis on the different ways the world can move towards the Sustainable Development path. 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…

Business as Usual Versus Sustainable Development
An Introduction to Sustainable Development
Social Communication for Social Change

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Social Communication for Social Change

Sarah Bradshaw argues that if we want to change rates of violence, we have to change the way violence is understood and change attitudes about violence in society. In Nicaragua, a feminist non-governmental organization called Puntos de Encuentro used media to highlight ideas about violence, including a popular television show that discussed issues like violence and homosexuality in a conservative society. The show jumpstarted discussion around how attitudes can change simply by promoting…

Social Communication for Social Change
Politics, Power, and the Common Good
An Introduction to Sustainable Development

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An Introduction to Sustainable Development

This lecture examines the different ideas behind sustainable development. It acts as an introduction to the complexities that make up the world in relation to sustainable development. 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.…

An Introduction to Sustainable Development
Health and Wellbeing
Politics, Power, and the Common Good

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Politics, Power, and the Common Good

You cannot live without living in a state or nation where politics and power are always at work. This is a point stressed by John Cardinal Onaiyekan in his chapter on politics, power, and the common good, which focuses on the concept of the human being in society.

Politics, Power, and the Common Good
Ideas of Poverty and Wellbeing
Health and Wellbeing

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Health and Wellbeing

In this chapter, Professor Sachs discusses the second key transformation, health and wellbeing. The many dimensions of achieving this transformation are considered, including access to universal health care and an integrated health system. Professor Sachs also discusses social determinants of health, such as rising opioid and obesity epidemics due to poorly regulated industry.

Health and Wellbeing
Global Governance for Sustainable Development
Ideas of Poverty and Wellbeing

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Ideas of Poverty and Wellbeing

Poverty has been an important part of the development agenda since the 1990s, but the way that we measure poverty has changed drastically over the years. Inequality is still not a mainstream measure, although measures such as the Gini coefficient are gaining prominence. Poverty is measured in terms of the poverty line, which is considered to be extreme poverty at under US $1.00 a day and poverty at US $2.00 a day. Who decides what is a basic good and what belongs in the basket of basic goods?…

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