These videos are from the SDG Academy course From the Ground Up: Managing and Preserving Our Terrestrial Ecosystems, first launched in 2018 and led by Virgilio Viana, Superintendent-General at Fundação Amazonas Sustentável.
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| 47 47 playsTerrestrial ecosystems are important for social and economic reasons through both their products – such as timber, fruits, etc. – and their services –… -
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| 236 236 playsSustainable Development means precisely the interconnection of economic, social, and environmental objectives. Therefore, it is important to try to achieve all of the… -
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| 387 387 playsThe Amazon has seen a fair amount of environmental degradation and humans have been degrading the environment since the use of fire. Thomas Lovejoy argues that we need… -
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| 107 107 playsThis chapter provides an overview of the nine targets associated with SDG 15, which relates to terrestrial ecosystems or Life on Land. The targets focus on: preserving… -
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| 114 114 playsEcosystem services can be divided among those that are provisioning; those that produce market goods that are consumed by human beings; those that regulate the provision… -
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| 94 94 playsIn this chapter, Virgilio Viana discusses holistic approaches to the design of public policies policies for sustainable development using his experience as state… -
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| 38 38 playsTerrestrial ecosystems have very close connections with inland freshwater ecosystems in terms of both flora and fauna; to protect a fishery, protect a flooded forest.… -
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| 76 76 playsThe human dimension of terrestrial ecosystems is often neglected or poorly addressed. Virgilio Viana argues that the best long-term solution for good stewardship of… -
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| 33 33 playsPeter May profiles different frameworks for evaluating the sustainability of terrestrial ecosystems. One such framework is the Pressure-State-Response Framework (PSR),… -
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| 26 26 playsThis chapter looks into different types of terrestrial and inland freshwater ecosystems and differing definitions of ecosystems, including: A human-determined transition… -
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| 48 48 playsAgroforestry systems (SAF) can take various forms and combinations of species and strategies of cultivation of the species of interest, but in general is a form of land… -
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| 32 32 playsIn this chapter, Rita Mesquita discusses managing protected areas through the ecosystem approach, which is the basis of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). The… -
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| 14 14 playsThis chapter focuses on the management of protected areas in the Amazon basin. Rivers serve as natural barriers for the distribution of biodiversity and in the Amazon,… -
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| 36 36 playsPayment for Environmental Services (PES), created by Ronald Coase, is a valuation concept scheme that grew out of concern about deforestation and led to wide-scale… -
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| 30 30 playsMarket signals are not adequate to motivate market participants to protect biodiversity, which is a public good, or an externality, so biodiversity conservation… -
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| 16 16 playsThe modern international environmental movement started with the Stockholm Environment Conference convened by the United Nations in 1972, followed by the Earth Summit in…