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Join Professor Jeffrey Sachs and political and media analyst Norman Solomon as they discuss Solomon’s important new book, War Made Invisible: How America Hides the…
Conversation with Norman Solomon, War Made…
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Today’s most urgent problems are fundamentally global. They require nothing less than concerted, planet-wide action if we are to secure a long-term future. But…
The Ages of Globalization
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In 2000, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) set the international policy framework for development across the globe. Critiques of the MDGs are that they were…
Sustainable Development and Rights
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This chapter discusses the drivers that impact food systems and health and nutrition outcomes, first focusing on natural resource capital, and then climate change,…
Socio-economic Dynamics of Food Systems
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Each one of us can calibrate what we have available to ourselves. 1. First of all, we have to educate ourselves. 2. Secondly, every one of us is an advocate to those…
The Ethics of Modern Slavery and Trafficking
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This chapter examines the history of migration looking at modern trends of migration and types of forced migration including human trafficking and modern slavery. This…
Drivers of Migration, Human Trafficking, and…
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Currently, we have a rapidly changing coast due to climatic drivers such as sea level rise, as well as socioeconomic drivers such as population growth and migration…
Future Coasts
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This chapter discusses the complexities surrounding the ethics of migration and how different causes of migration require different approaches, and suggests a…
The Ethics of Migration and Refugees
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This video is part of Module 4: How can we make cities productive and reduce inequality? When someone is forced from their home, more often than not they move to cities…
Migration and the Refugee Crisis
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Joshua Castellino discusses how international human rights treaties are constructed using examples from the Refugee Convention, the Convention on the Rights of the…
International Human Rights Treaties
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Why are some countries rich and some countries poor?" "Why are some individuals or societies better off than others?" Keep in mind that perhaps the most…
Mobility, migration, and opportunity
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This chapter discusses poverty reduction and rural development through a discussion of the linkages between farming and non-farming in rural areas and the linkage to…
Rural Economies and Urban Linkage
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Join Professor Jeffrey Sachs and Yakov M. Rabkin, historian and Professor Emeritus at the University of Montreal, for a wide-ranging and fascinating discussion on the…
Conversation with Yakov Rabkin, Israel in…
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This video is part of Module 4: How can we make cities productive and reduce inequality? Learn about migration, mobility, and urban-rural areas. Rural-Urban Continuum…
Migration, Mobility and the Urban-Rural Continuum
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The number of international migrants and refugees has grown tremendously between 1970 and 2015 and approximately 7% of international migrants are children between the…
Conflict and Migration: Impacts on Childhood…
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Professor Garry Peterson provides a theoretical thinking approach to living in the Anthropocene. He encourages us to look at the depiction of sustainability provided…
Imagining the Anthropocene
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