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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554 playsThe 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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295 playsSustainable Development means precisely the interconnection of economic, social, and environmental objectives. Therefore, it is important to try to achieve all of the… -
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224 playsIn this chapter, Virgilio Viana discusses holistic approaches to the design of public policies policies for sustainable development using his experience as state… -
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33 playsIn this chapter, Rita Mesquita discusses managing protected areas through the ecosystem approach, which is the basis of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). The… -
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38 playsPayment 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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13 playsThis chapter from our course on terrestrial ecosystem management explores the potential negative effects of extracting forest products. This video is licensed under the… -
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34 playsMarket signals are not adequate to motivate market participants to protect biodiversity, which is a public good, or an externality, so biodiversity conservation…