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Universal Access to Infrastructure

This chapter introduces a new kind of capital, infrastructure capital, and explains it's importance in sustainable development. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license.

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Gestión efectiva de una alianza Salud Mesoamerica

En este vídeo, Emma Iriarte habla sobre la Iniciativa Salud Mesoamericano y explica cómo la gestión efectiva ha convertido esta iniciativa en un alianza exitosa. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license.

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The Goal of Less Than 2ºC, Part I

How does emission of greenhouse gases lead to global warming? This chapter depicts and analyzes significant factors and illuminates anomalies contributing to the drastic change in our climate. Lastly, this chapter addresses the perils of global warming and the urgency to keep global temperature rise below 2 degrees Celsius, as stated in the Paris Climate Agreement. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license.

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The Challenge of Urban Politics, Planning and Governance, Part II

Urban politics comes down to making decisions with short, medium, and long-term impacts in a context of scarce resources between competing priorities, making planning very important. Types of planning include spatial planning, strategic planning or growth management planning, spatial literacy planning, precinct-level planning, and other intersectional types of planning. This is considered through the case study of the City of Johannesburg, South Africa. Watch Part I This video is licensed…

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Aggregate Demand with Flexible Exchange Rate

In this chapter, Professor Sachs discusses international trade and how it is affected by the exchange rate, which is in turn affected by financial flows and the differences of interest rates at home and abroad. There are two ways to manage the exchange rates of a country, namely by supply and demand, or by the central bank setting the price. This is explained using the case of exchange rate of Renminbi to the US dollar, as managed by the People’s Bank of China. Countries have the right…

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Incomes Around the World

This lecture introduces the concepts of gross domestic product, gross domestic product per capita, and purchasing power parity. It also defines high, middle, and low income countries as well as introducing a fourth category, the least developed countries. 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,…

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Transformation Challenges

This chapter opens with a discussion of environmental crises and the need for deep and widespread change. Dr. Sachs goes on to describe six grand transformations that will be necessary to achieve the SDGs, including: education, skills and jobs; health and wellbeing; clean energy and industry; sustainable land use; sustainable cities; and the digital revolution. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license.

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Feedbacks Interactions and Regime Shifts

This chapter discusses feedbacks, interactions, and regime shifts in social-ecological systems, which can also be thought of as tipping points or critical transitions, and which have some sort of stickiness -- a distinct change over time that persists. This is useful because we often think that change is linear, but now we see change that is abrupt and persistent. These types of changes often have large impacts on people. Regime shifts are not easy to reverse and are difficult to predict;…

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The Impact of Adversity and Toxic Stress on Child Development

Adversity has disruptive effects on the development of the brain and body, especially when children are living in environments burdened by deep poverty, exposure to violence, maltreatment, etc. This increases the likelihood for problems in school, with behavior, later economic productivity, and problems in physical and mental health. Studies are used to show evidence of the effects of adverse factors on poor outcomes of children in vulnerable situations. As the number of risk factors increases,…