The Strategy to End Poverty
"Do No Harm": The Rise of New Humanitarianism
Introducing Sustainable Development

12:24

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
What is Urban Poverty?
"Do No Harm": The Rise of New Humanitarianism

06:52

"Do No Harm": The Rise of New Humanitarianism

How we understand humanitarianism has been changing. People have been reconsidering whether we should be more selective in terms of who we give aid to after the Rwandan genocide of 1994. Since the Kosovo War in 1998-1999, there are claims that militaristic interventions are now often "dressed up" as humanitarian interventions, leading some actors to question the principles of humanitarianism. Neutrality has also become an issue. Humanitarians act on short-term scale to alleviate…

"Do No Harm": The Rise of New Humanitarianism
A Brief History of the SDGs
What is Urban Poverty?

08:43

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

What is Urban Poverty?
Human Dimension of Ecosystem Protection and Management, Part I
A Brief History of the SDGs

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A Brief History of the SDGs

This chapter presents the origins of the SDGs, how they arose and why? The chapter conveys the core idea that clear goal-setting is essential for progress and examines the process through which the SDGs were established. Dr. Sachs begins a discussion of historic development by reaching back several decades to the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (1972) to the Millennium Development Goals to the present.

A Brief History of the SDGs
Urban Theory and History
Human Dimension of Ecosystem Protection and Management, Part I

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Human Dimension of Ecosystem Protection and Management, Part I

The human dimension of terrestrial ecosystems is often neglected or poorly addressed. Virgilio Viana argues that the best long-term solution for good stewardship of these ecosystems is to make forests worth more standing than cut. Education on native plants, local soils, local fish and the landscape where communities are located is a key element of sustainable management of forests. Higher education offers opportunities for people to improve their status within their own communities. Many young…

Human Dimension of Ecosystem Protection and Management, Part I
A Vision of Rights for the Future
Urban Theory and History

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Urban Theory and History

This chapter features a discussion of the different types of research modalities there are to support inclusive, sustainable urban development, induing the general issues faced by researchers in city and regional planning, the various approaches and modalities used to conduct research, and a plea for supporting multidisciplinary methods of research. Three global conversations about peace and conflict, climate change, and inequality are addressed and discussed here in the context of urbanization…

Urban Theory and History
Lessons from London and Mumbai on How Cities Function
A Vision of Rights for the Future

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A Vision of Rights for the Future

In addressing the sustainable development agenda of the next thirty to fifty years, it is important to bear in mind six key concerns. The first is an emphasis on individual rather than collective rights. The second is the notion of the reliance on civil and political rights at the cost of economic and social rights and a recognition of their indivisibility. The third concern is dimming down the reliance on legal advocacy and legislative mechanisms to gain rights, especially because this runs…

A Vision of Rights for the Future
The Strategy to End Poverty
Lessons from London and Mumbai on How Cities Function

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Lessons from London and Mumbai on How Cities Function

This video is part of Module 2: What makes a city function? how cities can be governed better to enable sustainability

Lessons from London and Mumbai on How Cities Function
Introducing Sustainable Development
The Strategy to End Poverty

19:52

The Strategy to End Poverty

In this lecture, Professor Sachs uses differential diagnosis to look at extreme poverty and poverty traps in sub Saharan Africa.

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