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From SDG Academy 20 August, 2019
| 660 660 playsThere is rising scientific evidence that humanity has now entered a new era that is defined as the Anthropocene, in which humanity is shaping the entire biosphere in a… -
From SDG Academy 20 August, 2019
| 1,242 1,242 playsThis chapters opens with a discussion of the CO2 emissions due to agriculture. Professor Sachs goes on to discuss how agriculture and food production impact SDGs, such… -
From SDG Academy 20 August, 2019
| 300 300 playsThe planetary squeeze, or the driving forces that explain why we’ve ended up with rising environmental risks, originate from four different areas: population… -
From SDG Academy 23 August, 2019
| 840 840 playsEvery night, 795 million people go to bed hungry although we produce sufficient food to provide an average 2700 kilocalories every day per person. Four billion metric… -
From SDG Academy 5 August, 2019
| 568 568 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… -
From SDG Academy 6 August, 2019
| 298 298 playsSustainable Development means precisely the interconnection of economic, social, and environmental objectives. Therefore, it is important to try to achieve all of the… -
From SDG Academy 5 August, 2019
| 63 63 playsTerrestrial ecosystems are important for social and economic reasons through both their products – such as timber, fruits, etc. – and their services –… -
From SDG Academy 20 August, 2019
| 407 407 playsProfessor Carl Folke discusses a social-ecological system approach, in which people are looked at as being part of, and changing, the planet, in addition to being… -
From SDG Academy 20 August, 2019
| 320 320 playsA planetary boundary process is an environmental process that is part of the Earth's regulatory system, helping it to remain in our current desired state of the… -
From SDG Academy 20 August, 2019
| 199 199 playsThis chapter is about the challenges and opportunities that urban centers face. Urban centers are expanding beyond traditional urban boundaries in a process called urban… -
From SDG Academy 27 August, 2019
| 157 157 playsThis lecture examines the chain reaction of threat that economic development past the planetary boundaries has had on biodiversity. This video is not available under… -
From SDG Academy 27 August, 2019
| 118 118 playsBiodiversity is an integral part of ecosystems functioning, and this chapter explores why a threat to biodiversity is a threat to ecosystems as a whole, and why… -
From SDG Academy 20 August, 2019
| 87 87 playsThis chapter explains the concern about atmospheric aerosols, which are liquid droplets or particles that are suspended in the atmosphere. They absorb and reflect light,… -
From SDG Academy 20 August, 2019
| 143 143 playsWe are now a big world on a small planet. The Great Acceleration starts with the expansion of human exploitation of the world, seen in urbanization, land-use… -
From SDG Academy 23 August, 2019
| 172 172 playsThis chapter is about the role that nature-based solutions can play in making agriculture more productive, while maintaining and preferably strengthening the integrity… -
From SDG Academy 5 August, 2019
| 121 121 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…