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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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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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Measuring and Monitoring the SDGs

This video is part of Module 8: How can cities and urban areas be governed better to make them more sustainable? We can measure the SDGs using tools for capacity development. From infrastructure to culture to economic opportunity, learn how harnessing the power of urban development for global progress is imperative. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license.

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Vulnerability and 'Natural' Disasters

Sarah Bradshaw discusses the concept of disaster and its imapct on vulnerable populations. First, she stipulates that there is no such thing as a natural disaster; there are natural hazards, like hurricanes or earthquakes, and they become disasters when they have an impact on a population that can’t respond to that event. Next, she asks: What defines a vulnerable population? She also discusses the notion of adaptive realism, which relates to responding to the risks that we think we can…

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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.

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Socio-emotional Development from 3 to 8

This chapter is about socio-emotional development, about when the children develop the important skills for cooperation and contribution in terms of pro-social and moral development and self-regulation. Pro-social development is key in the transition form parallel to cooperative play, which is important for later collaboration and teamwork skills. These are rooted in empathy and guilt, which are universal human emotions and related to conceptions of fairness and justice. There are differences…

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Economics to Equity in Health

Economics relates to health in that it relates to development. In this video, Professor K. Sinrath Reddy addresses the economics of global public health and economic equity. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license.

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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? In this course learn about the major challenges currently faced by urban areas around the world – including poverty, unemployment, poor housing infrastructure, and constraints on productivity – and the extraordinary potential of these areas to enable change in the future. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license.