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From SDG Academy on 23 August, 2019
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,… -
From SDG Academy on 21 October, 2020
This is the first lecture in the course "The Covid-19 Pandemic: Virology, Public Health, and Economics," taught by Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, Columbia University. … -
From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019
Price fluctuations happen as a result of the storage process from seasonal harvests and the working of the markets and the supply chain, as these harvests need to be… -
From SDG Academy on 30 March, 2020
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… -
From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019
The sixth wave of globalization is the one expected to characterize the 21st century. In this chapter, Professor Sachs provides an overview of the Planetary Boundaries… -
From SDG Academy on 23 August, 2019
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… -
From SDG Academy on 27 April, 2020
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… -
From SDG Academy on 7 August, 2019
Gender inequality has its roots in differences between men and women in society. These result from social constructions of relations, which in turn stem from sexual… -
From SDG Academy on 6 October, 2020
Recording of a live Q&A with Dr. Aisha K. Yousafzai from the SDG Academy course The Best Start in Life: Early Childhood Development for Sustainable Development. … -
From SDG Academy on 5 August, 2019
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… -
From SDG Academy on 9 August, 2019
How does global public health change throughout time? In this video, Professor K. Sinrath Reddy addresses this question, looking at how we predict the changes in public… -
From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019
How can the world of policy and science respond to the latest advancements in science? In the Anthropocene, we can no longer avoid catastrophic tipping points; we need a… -
From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019
In this chapter, Professor Sachs discusses the second key transformation, health and wellbeing. The many dimensions of achieving this transformation are considered,… -
From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019
This chapter discusses food security and how food security is measured, who is food insecure and where they are located, as well as progress to date on addressing the… -
From SDG Academy on 9 August, 2019
This video serves as an introduction to the "Global Public Health" course and addresses the questions of 'what is global public health' and 'how… -
From SDG Academy on 23 August, 2019
This video addresses the history of infectious diseases, looking at different infectious diseases and the evolution of how they were addressed over time, and explaining…