Six Major Globalizations
Why Sustainable Development is Important: Happiness and Wellbeing
Introducing Sustainable Development

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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.

Introducing Sustainable Development
Getting to Know the SDGs
Why Sustainable Development is Important: Happiness and Wellbeing

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Why Sustainable Development is Important: Happiness and Wellbeing

This chapter describes why the concept of sustainable development is so important, why it is so important that we orient towards the three objectives of prosperity, social fairness, and environmental sustainability. 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…

Why Sustainable Development is Important: Happiness and Wellbeing
The Ages of Globalization
Getting to Know the SDGs

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Getting to Know the SDGs

An introduction to the course Transforming Our World: Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Jeffrey Sachs profiles the history of the sustainable development agenda, from the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, to the creation and implementation of the Millennium Development Goals, to the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals in 2015. The chapter provides a brief overview of what each of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals are and how to achieve their associated 169 targets.

Getting to Know the SDGs
The Moral Basis for Business Activity
The Ages of Globalization

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The Ages of Globalization

Today’s most urgent problems are fundamentally global. They require nothing less than concerted, planet-wide action if we are to secure a long-term future. But humanity’s story has always been on a global scale. Seven distinct waves of technological and institutional change, starting with the original settling of the planet by early modern humans through long-distance migration and today’s globalization offer perspective on the ongoing processes taking place in our time…

The Ages of Globalization
What is Urban Poverty?
The Moral Basis for Business Activity

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The Moral Basis for Business Activity

This chapter looks at different dimensions of corporate social responsibility and stresses that the ethical responsibility of business must be a core component of business education.

The Moral Basis for Business Activity
The Role of Business in the SDGs
What is Urban Poverty?

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What is Urban Poverty?

This video is part of Module 3: How can we reduce urban poverty and make cities inclusive and safe? urban poverty and associated issues. 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.

What is Urban Poverty?
The Sustainable Development Goals
The Role of Business in the SDGs

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The Role of Business in the SDGs

In this chapter, Professor Sachs discusses the role of profit-oriented business in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. He explores the considerations that business managers should have in mind when considering the SDGs, including the role of the SDGs to define the kind of world and economy we want in the future, the issues of corporate responsibility and governance, and the creation of public-private partnerships.

The Role of Business in the SDGs
Six Major Globalizations
The Sustainable Development Goals

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The Sustainable Development Goals

This lecture looks at the 40 year history of sustainable development on the international stage and the development of the SDGs from past failures of attempts to mitigate climate change, and the destruction of biodiversity, and protect against desertification.

The Sustainable Development Goals
Introducing Sustainable Development
Six Major Globalizations

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Six Major Globalizations

This chapter is an introduction to the course Globalization: Past and Future. Jeffrey Sachs provides an overview of the six major waves of globalization: the Great Dispersal, the Neolithic Revolution, Land-Based Globalization, Ocean-Based Globalization, the Anglo-American World, and the New Globalization. He discusses the factors that shape globalization and covers the concept of "diffusion," or the dispersal of concepts, inventions, etc. from one place to others. He briefly addresses…

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