These videos are from the SDG Academy online course The Living Amazon: Science Cultures and Sustainability in Practice, developed in partnership with the Science Panel for the Amazon. It first launched in 2024.
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This lecture provides an overview of historic economic activities and development strategies in the Amazon. Learn how Amazonian resources (oil, minerals, hydropower, and…
Politics and Development Strategies for the Amazon
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This lecture analyzes the fascinating connections between the Andes and the Amazon, exploring the formation of river systems and wetlands. Discover the influence of…
Why is the Amazon so rich in species?
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This lecture provides a comprehensive overview of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), their origins and creation, and their performance across the Amazon region.…
SDGs and the Amazon
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This lecture provides an in-depth look at the intricate financial mechanisms used to fund large-scale conservation and restoration projects. It highlights important…
Financing the Transformation
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This lecture explores how the Amazon came to be over a three billion year time scale, highlighting the geology of the region, the uplift of the Andes, and the transition…
A brief history of geology in the Amazon
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The Living Amazon: Science, Cultures and…
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This lecture presents an overview of the Amazon, its ecosystems, people, and the essential services it provides. Learn about the true magnitude and importance of the…
What is the Amazon?
From SDG Academy
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This lecture presents how the search for gold and trade of other key commodities motivated the enslavement of Amazonian populations, both Indigenous and of African…
The Slave Trade and the Amazon: Indigenous and…
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This lecture presents key agrarian systems in the Amazon (e.g., crops, livestock), their role in deforestation and degradation, fragmentation, pollution of waterways,…
Agribusiness and Livelihood Systems in the Amazon
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This lecture highlights the importance of the Amazon in regional and global climate regulation, emphasizing its role as a substantial carbon sink that lowers CO2 levels…
Climate regulation in the Amazon
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This lecture presents sustainable approaches to address some of the biggest threats to the Amazon’s biodiversity and ecosystems, i.e., deforestation, damming of…
Conservation Solutions
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This lecture explores key drivers that have led to the deforestation of 17% of the Amazon Basin, and how this significantly impacts the environment through various…
Drivers and Ecological Impacts of Deforestation
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In this lecture, students will explore various strategies for restoring the Amazon’s ecosystems, ranging from site-specific interventions to global landscape-scale…
Restoration Solutions
From SDG Academy
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This lecture explores how the Amazon’s rural and urban inhabitants engage with each other and the forest. Discover how families migrate regularly between rural…
Boosting Relations Between the Amazon Forest and…
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This lecture highlights how the arrival of Europeans, especially Portuguese and Spanish, led to violence, diseases, religious domination, enslavement, dispossession, and…
Impacts of European Colonization on Amazonian…
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This lecture will argue that the Amazon is a really complex and diverse system, and that there is no one-size-fits-all solution. Instead, there is a set of solutions…
Is it still possible to save the Amazon?
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