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The global ocean connects us all and provides our livelihoods, the oxygen we breathe, and transportation, among other things. The ocean is included in SDG 14. This…
Introduction: The Oceans and Sustainable…
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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…
Welcome to the Anthropocene
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The ocean has always sparked human curiosity. In the mid-20th century, people began to realize that there are limits to what humanity should do to our planet before it…
Our Ocean: A Finite Resource
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This video is the first video of unit 2.1 of the course Nature-based Solutions for Disaster and Climate Resilience taught by Nathalie Doswald, Mikhail Fernandes, and…
What do we mean by Nature-based Solutions to…
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The planetary squeeze, or the driving forces that explain why we’ve ended up with rising environmental risks, originate from four different areas: population…
The Quadruple Squeeze
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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…
Social-Ecological Systems
From SDG Academy
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This chapter is about the challenges and opportunities that urban centers face. Urban centers are expanding beyond traditional urban boundaries in a process called urban…
Cities: Challenges and Opportunities
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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…
Justification for Planetary Boundary Selection
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This chapter explains the concern about atmospheric aerosols, which are liquid droplets or particles that are suspended in the atmosphere. They absorb and reflect light,…
Aerosol Loading
From SDG Academy
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We are now a big world on a small planet. The Great Acceleration starts with the expansion of human exploitation of the world, seen in urbanization, land-use…
The Great Acceleration
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Plankton are tiny creatures that drift in the sunlit surface layer of the sea, and their choreography is conducted by sunlight and nutrients. Light only penetrates the…
Dance of the Plankton
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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…
Fisheries Economics and Management
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This video is the second video of unit 1.2 of the course Nature-based Solutions for Disaster and Climate Resilience taught by Nathalie Doswald, Mikhail Fernandes, and…
Nature’s solutions to landslides: a case…
From SDG Academy
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This chapter discusses human impacts on the global nitrogen and phosphorus cycles that link the living and non-living parts of the Earth system. These chemical…
Interference with Global Nitrogen and Phosphorous…
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This video is the third video of unit 2.1 of the course Nature-based Solutions for Disaster and Climate Resilience taught by Nathalie Doswald, Mikhail Fernandes, and…
Interview with Verónica Ruiz, Nature-based…
From SDG Academy
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This chapter discusses the social foundations for the planetary boundaries. This goes back to the Brundtland Report of 1987, which defined sustainability as a…
Social Foundations for Planetary Boundaries
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