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Introduction: The Oceans and Sustainable Development

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 course will try to provide a deeper understanding of the complex understanding of the ocean, environment, and climate system. Humans receive resources from the ocean, as well as risks. There will be weekly lectures on different topics, including the basic physics of ocean circulation, the ocean ecosystem, how the deep ocean works,…

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An Introduction to Sustainable Development

This lecture examines the different ideas behind sustainable development. It acts as an introduction to the complexities that make up the world in relation to sustainable development. This video is not available under a Creative Commons license and should not be considered open content. However, the video is freely available for viewing or sharing with individuals or groups for educational purposes, such as in a classroom, workshop, or training. Please give attribution to the SDG Academy.…

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Social Policies to Combat Social Exclusion

This chapter uses two examples to give further insight into the processes that have been incurred in the context of social exclusion. First–The British assimilated or discarded the Aboriginal indigenous peoples of Australia, but made treaties with the Maori peoples of New Zealand. The treaties had different meanings in both languages and resulted in the Maori losing their lands to the British. But in the 1970s, dispossessed Maori were able to gain Restitution through structural…

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Our Ocean: A Finite Resource

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 cannot support life as we know it, limits known as the planetary boundaries. The human population of the planet has reached 7 billion people and will soon approach 11 billion people. We rely on the earth to support us with ecosystem services; the ocean provides these services by regulating the climate system. The oceans have a…

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What are the SDGs?

Patrick Paul Walsh, VP of Education, SDSN This video discusses the origins, key themes, and implementation of the 2030 Agenda and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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Business as Usual Versus Sustainable Development

This lecture introduces two paths for the future: the Business as Usual path and the Sustainable Development path. It examines the major negative impacts of the Business as Usual path and puts an emphasis on the different ways the world can move towards the Sustainable Development path. This video is not available under a Creative Commons license and should not be considered open content. However, the video is freely available for viewing or sharing with individuals or groups for educational…

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The Rights of Indigenous Populations

"Laudato Si' inspired all of us with its call for integral human development. And that means that we have to look at human development with a holistic approach, looking at all dimensions of development. And this framework means that we have to deal with individuals, with the inner development of everybody, not only taking care of the environment but also taking care of people. Our mandate to deal with a holistic approach to sustainable development is very much in tune with and in line…

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Introducing Sustainable Development

In this chapter, Professor Jeffrey Sachs introduces the course "Sustainable Development: the Post-Capitalist Order" and defines sustainable development. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license. Please give attribution to the SDG Academy.

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Transparency and accountability

Transparency is defined as a flow of relevant, timely, and reliable information, information in the economic, financial, social, institution, and political arenas, which is accessible to all relevant stakeholders. When it's clunky and not accessible, it is sometimes referred to as "zombie transparency". Despite efforts towards more transparency, there is some narrowing of civic space as a means of accountability. Additionally, transparency alone cannot solve these issues, e.g. if…