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Water for All, Health for All

This chapter looks at SDG 6.1 and 6.2, safe drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license.

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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…

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Conversation with Aaron Good, American Exception: Empire and the Deep State

TBC

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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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Cities as Centers of Cultural and Social Transformation Part I

Many people see cities as primary places of economic activity, but cities are also sites of social, cultural, and religious relevance. Examples of cities and their roles are given in their historical and cultural contexts. Cities are the center where intellectuals, artists, musicians, revolutionaries and others congregate, as well as where power and inequality is often seen. This is all explored in this chapter using historical examples. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license.

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Markets and Supply Chains

Price fluctuations happen as a result of the storage process from seasonal harvests and the working of the markets and the supply chain, as these harvests need to be transported between production and consumption. In off-farm storage, there are issues of food safety, processing, and quality assurance. Seasonal price changes reflect the cost of storage because when simultaneous harvests occur across a huge area, prices are low, but after that, prices rise by exactly the cost of storage, or the…

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What is Affordable and Adequate Housing?

This video is part of Module 3: How can we reduce urban poverty and make cities inclusive and safe? Housing is the basis of stability and security for an individual or family. The center of our social, emotional and sometimes economic lives, a home should be a sanctuary—a place to live in peace, security and dignity. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license.

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Thinking about Alternatives

In the first video of his series Freedom Now: The Economic and Political Alternative, philosopher Roberto Mangabeira Unger argues that traditional progressive politics do not go far enough in their reimagining of the status quo, and sets the stage for his vision of a truly progressive alternative.

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Three Approaches to ICT for the SDGs

This video takes a look at the three main relationships between ICT and the SDGs, highlighting the need to measure and track the expansion of ICT. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license.