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From SDG Academy 20 August, 2019
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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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