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Social-Ecological Systems

From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019

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Professor 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…

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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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Welcome to the Anthropocene

From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019

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There 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…

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New and Emerging Perspectives on Global Governance

From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019

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There are many different schools and approaches on how to reform global environmental governance. Deep institutional reform builds on the idea that, if you manage to…

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Designing Participatory Methods in Landscape…

Designing Participatory Methods in Landscape Management

From SDG Academy on 6 August, 2019

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This chapter explores the different approaches for participatory methods to design sustainable development solutions. There are three types of participatory methods:…

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Justification for Planetary Boundary Selection

From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019

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A 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…

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Non-Linear Thinking in the Anthropocene

From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019

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Resilience has a dual nature, of thinking about sustaining what we want to sustain, AND building the capacity to adapt or transform toward something better. We live in a…

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Quantification of the Nine Planetary Boundaries

From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019

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Challenges arise when trying to define quantitatively the boundary position for each global process. First, a control variable is identified as a parameter that…

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Reflection on Taking Action in the Anthropocene

From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019

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This video is a collection of perspectives regarding tipping points and planetary boundaries.

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Designing for Complex Landscapes

From SDG Academy on 6 August, 2019

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This chapter discusses the issue of designing projects and actions to manage complex problems, often amongst people with very different cultures and backgrounds.…

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Imagining the Anthropocene

From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019

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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…

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Introducing the Planetary Boundaries Framework

From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019

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This chapter explores the origins of the planetary boundaries, which comes from the recognition that we’ve entered the Anthropocene and that the exponential…

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Social and Economic Importance of Terrestrial…

Social and Economic Importance of Terrestrial Ecosystems

From SDG Academy on 5 August, 2019

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Terrestrial ecosystems are important for social and economic reasons through both their products – such as timber, fruits, etc. – and their services –…

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Ecosystem Degradation

From SDG Academy on 5 August, 2019

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The 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…

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Energy: A Promising Pathway

From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019

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To develop within a safe operating space, there must be a global transition to a renewable energy system, as growing economies are projected to have growing energy use…

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Payment for Environmental Services

From SDG Academy on 5 August, 2019

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Payment for Environmental Services (PES), created by Ronald Coase, is a valuation concept scheme that grew out of concern about deforestation and led to wide-scale…

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