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…
From SDG Academy 5 August, 2019
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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…
From SDG Academy 6 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 –…
From SDG Academy 5 August, 2019
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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…
From SDG Academy 6 August, 2019
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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…
From SDG Academy 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…
From SDG Academy 5 August, 2019
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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…
From SDG Academy 5 August, 2019
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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.…
From SDG Academy 5 August, 2019
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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),…
From SDG Academy 5 August, 2019
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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…
From SDG Academy 5 August, 2019
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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…
From SDG Academy 5 August, 2019
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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…
From SDG Academy 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…
From SDG Academy 5 August, 2019
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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…
From SDG Academy 3 March, 2020
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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,…
From SDG Academy 5 August, 2019
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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…
From SDG Academy 6 August, 2019
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