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La macroéconomie écologique (Ecological macroeconomics)

Dans cette vidéo pédagogique, le professeur Thomas Lagoarde-Ségot (KEDGE Business School et SDSN France) présente la macroéconomie écologique à travers le modèle visuel du « double engrenage ». Les objectifs d'apprentissage sont les suivant : -Comprendre le fonctionnement global d'une économie de production monétaire -Comprendre le concept d'équilibre de circuit -Analyser les causes et les…

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If Rights are for All, Why Special Rights for Some?

International law protects the few from the tyranny of the majority because marginalized groups are further away from sites of power. While by law we are all equal, in actual practice there is a gap in access to rights due to entrenched poverty and social exclusion. Indigenous people are often one of these marginalized groups, along with migrant workers, refugees, children, women, people with disabilities, and people with non-normative sexual orientations, among others. This video is licensed…

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Ideas of Poverty and Wellbeing

Poverty has been an important part of the development agenda since the 1990s, but the way that we measure poverty has changed drastically over the years. Inequality is still not a mainstream measure, although measures such as the Gini coefficient are gaining prominence. Poverty is measured in terms of the poverty line, which is considered to be extreme poverty at under US $1.00 a day and poverty at US $2.00 a day. Who decides what is a basic good and what belongs in the basket of basic goods?…

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How are Human Rights Created?

Joshua Castellino outlines the process that makes a cultural norm a codified right. He uses the example of the Polish with the Child Rights Convention. He discusses both charter-based mechanisms and treaty-based mechanisms of rights. States have obligations to human rights through norms bound in legal terms. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license.

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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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Why Sustainable Development is Important: Happiness and Wellbeing

This chapter describes why the concept of sustainable development is so important, why it is so important that we orient towards the three objectives of prosperity, social fairness, and environmental sustainability. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license.

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The Role of Universities and SDSN

In this chapter, Professor Sachs discusses the role of universities in contributing to global partnerships for achieving the SDGs. He explains the history and formation of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network, as well as its work as a global framework of universities. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license.

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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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Link between Employment, Work, Income and Wealth

What is the link between employment, work, and wealth? This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license.