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Introducing Sustainable Development

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In this chapter, Professor Jeffrey Sachs introduces the course "Sustainable Development: the Post-Capitalist Order" and defines sustainable development. This…

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Why Sustainable Development is Important:…

Why Sustainable Development is Important: Happiness and Wellbeing

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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,…

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Environmental Planning, Management and the…

Environmental Planning, Management and the Politics of Change

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This video is part of Module 7: How can the urban environment be protected and cities be made resilient? Learn how the government, the private sector, and other actors…

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Financing Sustainable Development

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How are resources mobilized to achieve sustainable development? This question is addressed in this video about financing the SDGs. This video is licensed under the CC…

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What is Urban Poverty?

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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…

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Education for Sustainable Development and Global…

Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship

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Education is crucial for global development and for the success of sustainable development, but this chapter discusses the content of learning to be good citizens in a…

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The Three Big Challenges: Climate Change,…

The Three Big Challenges: Climate Change, Biodiversity, Pollution

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This chapter focuses on the three main environmental challenges facing the world today: human-induced climate change, biodiversity loss, and the pollution caused by…

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Growth on a Finite Planet: Is it Inherently…

Growth on a Finite Planet: Is it Inherently Impossible?

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This chapter discusses two important questions: is it feasible to have economic growth from this point forward and does economic growth even make sense on a finite…

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Fairness, Understanding Factors of Inequality

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This chapter explores inequality based on geographic factors, looking at the history of colonialism and slavery, discrimination, and indigenous populations. This video…

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The Ethics of Sustainable Development

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This chapter is the final chapter in the Sustainable Development: the Post Capital Order course, and looks at the ethics of sustainable development, looking at key…

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Six Sources of Wellbeing

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This chapter focuses o the six sources of well-being, challenging the traditional capitalist idea that consumers will maximize their well-being and instead looking at…

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Global Capitalism is a Faustian Bargain: Greed in…

Global Capitalism is a Faustian Bargain: Greed in return for prosperity

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This chapter describes the issues with current-day capitalism, using Faustian logic, and explains why it is neccessary to devise new institutions of governance,…

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Education and Skills

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This video is part of Module 5: How can we improve human development in cities? How can we heed the call of Sustainable Development Goal 11 – “making cities…

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Challenges for Food Loss and Food Waste and…

Challenges for Food Loss and Food Waste and Opportunities for Reduction

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Every 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…

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Cities as Centers of Cultural and Social…

Cities as Centers of Cultural and Social Transformation Part I

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Many people see cities as primary places of economic activity, but cities are also sites of social, cultural, and religious relevance. Examples of cities and their roles…

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The Economics of Climate Change: A Holistic…

The Economics of Climate Change: A Holistic Approach

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