These videos are from the SDG Academy course From the Ground Up: Managing and Preserving Our Terrestrial Ecosystems, first launched in 2018 and led by Virgilio Viana, Superintendent-General at Fundação Amazonas Sustentável.
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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…
Ecosystem Degradation
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Sustainable Development means precisely the interconnection of economic, social, and environmental objectives. Therefore, it is important to try to achieve all of the…
How SDG 15 Links With Other SDGs
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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 –…
Social and Economic Importance of Terrestrial…
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In this chapter, Virgilio Viana discusses holistic approaches to the design of public policies policies for sustainable development using his experience as state…
The Holistic Design of Public Policies for SDG 15
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This chapter provides an overview of the nine targets associated with SDG 15, which relates to terrestrial ecosystems or Life on Land. The targets focus on: preserving…
Introduction to SDG 15
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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…
Valuing Ecosystem Services
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The human dimension of terrestrial ecosystems is often neglected or poorly addressed. Virgilio Viana argues that the best long-term solution for good stewardship of…
Human Dimension of Ecosystem Protection and…
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Terrestrial ecosystems have very close connections with inland freshwater ecosystems in terms of both flora and fauna; to protect a fishery, protect a flooded forest.…
Terrestrial and Inland Freshwater Ecosystems,…
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Peter May profiles different frameworks for evaluating the sustainability of terrestrial ecosystems. One such framework is the Pressure-State-Response Framework (PSR),…
The Cost of Inaction
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This chapter looks into different types of terrestrial and inland freshwater ecosystems and differing definitions of ecosystems, including: A human-determined transition…
Terrestrial and Inland Freshwater Ecosystems,…
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Agroforestry systems (SAF) can take various forms and combinations of species and strategies of cultivation of the species of interest, but in general is a form of land…
Agroforestry Systems
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In this chapter, Rita Mesquita discusses managing protected areas through the ecosystem approach, which is the basis of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). The…
Protected Area Management I
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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…
Payment for Environmental Services
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This chapter from our course on terrestrial ecosystem management explores the potential negative effects of extracting forest products. This video is licensed under the…
Sustainable Forest Management
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This chapter focuses on the management of protected areas in the Amazon basin. Rivers serve as natural barriers for the distribution of biodiversity and in the Amazon,…
Protected Area Management II
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Market signals are not adequate to motivate market participants to protect biodiversity, which is a public good, or an externality, so biodiversity conservation…
Financial Resources for Achieving SDG 15
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