La importancia de las alianzas multiactor
Conversation with Robert Lustig, Metabolical
Consequences of Climate Change

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Consequences of Climate Change

This lecture focuses on the consequences of climate change, and the dangers of not significantly reducing human CO2 emissions. 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.

Consequences of Climate Change
International Law and the Extractive Industries
Conversation with Robert Lustig, Metabolical

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Conversation with Robert Lustig, Metabolical

In this conversation, Professor Jeffrey Sachs and Dr. Robert Lustig discuss the relationship between nutrition and non-communicable disease, the dangers of processed foods, and Lustig's new book Metabolical: The Lure and the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition, and Modern Medicine. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.

Conversation with Robert Lustig, Metabolical
Why Sustainable Development is Important: Happiness and Wellbeing
International Law and the Extractive Industries

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International Law and the Extractive Industries

This chapter covers international laws that can impact the governance of natural resources. Trade law is one example, as it can require governments not to restrict experts of natural resources. Other examples include conventions on corruption and human rights treaties. This chapter focuses on international investment law, illustrating the protection of foreign investors and foreign investments, for two key reasons. First, it limits the ability of governments to regulate or take actions…

International Law and the Extractive Industries
Coastal Systems: Physical and Socioeconomic Dimensions
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
Introduction to Fisheries and Aquaculture
Coastal Systems: Physical and Socioeconomic Dimensions

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Coastal Systems: Physical and Socioeconomic Dimensions

The coast is an important boundary; it’s a physical boundary, a conceptual boundary, and a jurisdictional boundary. Using the definition of the coast as the place where the land meets the water and the zone extends several kilometers inland and out into the water, the coastal zone is one of the most densely populated on earth, and most of that population live in a lower elevation coastal zone. Humans affect natural processes, so we need to look at the coast as a system which comprises a…

Coastal Systems: Physical and Socioeconomic Dimensions
Apartheid and Planning in South African Cities
Introduction to Fisheries and Aquaculture

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Introduction to Fisheries and Aquaculture

When humans first turned to the ocean to find and harvest food hundreds of thousands of years ago, the seemingly infinite amount and diversity of seafood must have been overwhelming. In fact, until the middle of the last century, even scientists thought that humankind would not severely threaten the large fish stocks in our ocean. Today we know better. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license. Learn more at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/.

Introduction to Fisheries and Aquaculture
Case Study: Lessons from Viet Nam
Apartheid and Planning in South African Cities

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Apartheid and Planning in South African Cities

This video is part of Module 5: How can we improve human development in cities? apartheid, planning, south african cities

Apartheid and Planning in South African Cities
La importancia de las alianzas multiactor
Case Study: Lessons from Viet Nam

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Case Study: Lessons from Viet Nam

Perspectives on industrial policy from Vu Xuan Nguyet Hong, former Vice President at the Central Institute for Economic Management (CIEM) in Vietnam.

Case Study: Lessons from Viet Nam
Consequences of Climate Change
La importancia de las alianzas multiactor

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La importancia de las alianzas multiactor

En este vídeo, Profesor Jeffrey Sachs habla sobre el significado de alianzas multiactor y los papeles diferentes que varios sectores tienen.

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