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Introducing Sustainable Development

Introducing Sustainable Development

From SDG Academy on 22 August, 2019

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

Why Sustainable Development is Important: Happiness and Wellbeing

From SDG Academy on 23 August, 2019

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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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The Challenge of Sustainable Development

The Challenge of Sustainable Development

From SDG Academy on 27 August, 2019

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This chapter serves as a conclusion to the course Macroeconomics for a Sustainable Planet. In this final video, Professor Sachs talks about the environmental challenges…
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The Epidemiology and Economics of Coronavirus

The Epidemiology and Economics of Coronavirus

From SDG Academy on 30 March, 2020

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The COVID-19 global health pandemic is rapidly changing the ways we live and work. In the age of sustainable development and at a time when the world is working towards…
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Financing Sustainable Development

Financing Sustainable Development

From SDG Academy on 23 August, 2019

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How are resources mobilized to achieve sustainable development? This question is addressed in this video about financing the SDGs.
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Six Sources of Wellbeing

Six Sources of Wellbeing

From SDG Academy on 23 August, 2019

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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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Implications of COVID-19 for Public Health and…

Implications of COVID-19 for Public Health and the SDGs

From SDG Academy on 27 April, 2020

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COVID-19 is complicating SDG implementation efforts as well as posing a real risk to achieving targets on communicable disease, education, life expectancy, and decent…
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Growth on a Finite Planet: Is it Inherently…

Growth on a Finite Planet: Is it Inherently Impossible?

From SDG Academy on 23 August, 2019

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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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The Three Big Challenges: Climate Change,…

The Three Big Challenges: Climate Change, Biodiversity, Pollution

From SDG Academy on 23 August, 2019

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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 and Inequality

Growth and Inequality

From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019

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This chapter focuses on growth and inequality, and more specifically, the Kuznets Curve, in order to show the relationship between income per capita and inequality.…
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Thinking about Alternatives

Thinking about Alternatives

From SDG Academy on 18 August, 2020

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In the first video of his series Freedom Now: The Economic and Political Alternative, philosopher Roberto Mangabeira Unger argues that traditional progressive politics…
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Valuing Ecosystem Services

Valuing Ecosystem Services

From SDG Academy on 5 August, 2019

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Ecosystem 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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The Market Economy: Specialization, Division of…

The Market Economy: Specialization, Division of Labor, Entrepreneurship

From SDG Academy on 23 August, 2019

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This chapter talks about the arrival of capitalist institutions which remade societies by creating market relations for labor, land, intellectual property, and other…
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Education for Sustainable Development and Global…

Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship

From SDG Academy on 23 August, 2019

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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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Fisheries Economics and Management

Fisheries Economics and Management

From SDG Academy on 31 July, 2019

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In the period from 1950 to the late 1980s, global catches in fishers have increased from less than 20 million tons per year to about 80 million tons per year. They have…
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The New Dilemma of Development

The New Dilemma of Development

From SDG Academy on 18 August, 2020

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In the third video of Roberto Mangabeira Unger's Freedom Now series, Professor Unger explains that traditional means of promoting economic…

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