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There is rising scientific evidence that humanity has now entered a new era that is defined as the Anthropocene, in which humanity is shaping the entire biosphere in a…
Welcome to the Anthropocene
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This chapters opens with a discussion of the CO2 emissions due to agriculture. Professor Sachs goes on to discuss how agriculture and food production impact SDGs, such…
Sustainable Food and Land Use
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The planetary squeeze, or the driving forces that explain why we’ve ended up with rising environmental risks, originate from four different areas: population…
The Quadruple Squeeze
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Every night, 795 million people go to bed hungry although we produce sufficient food to provide an average 2700 kilocalories every day per person. Four billion metric…
Challenges for Food Loss and Food Waste and…
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This video is the first video of unit 2.1 of the course Nature-based Solutions for Disaster and Climate Resilience taught by Nathalie Doswald, Mikhail Fernandes, and…
What do we mean by Nature-based Solutions to…
From SDG Academy
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The Amazon has seen a fair amount of environmental degradation and humans have been degrading the environment since the use of fire. Thomas Lovejoy argues that we need…
Ecosystem Degradation
From SDG Academy
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Sustainable Development means precisely the interconnection of economic, social, and environmental objectives. Therefore, it is important to try to achieve all of the…
How SDG 15 Links With Other SDGs
From SDG Academy
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Terrestrial ecosystems are important for social and economic reasons through both their products – such as timber, fruits, etc. – and their services –…
Social and Economic Importance of Terrestrial…
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Professor Carl Folke discusses a social-ecological system approach, in which people are looked at as being part of, and changing, the planet, in addition to being…
Social-Ecological Systems
From SDG Academy
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This chapter is about the challenges and opportunities that urban centers face. Urban centers are expanding beyond traditional urban boundaries in a process called urban…
Cities: Challenges and Opportunities
From SDG Academy
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A planetary boundary process is an environmental process that is part of the Earth's regulatory system, helping it to remain in our current desired state of the…
Justification for Planetary Boundary Selection
From SDG Academy
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This lecture examines the chain reaction of threat that economic development past the planetary boundaries has had on biodiversity. This video is not available under…
What is Biodiversity?
From SDG Academy
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Biodiversity is an integral part of ecosystems functioning, and this chapter explores why a threat to biodiversity is a threat to ecosystems as a whole, and why…
Biodiversity Under Threat
From SDG Academy
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This chapter explains the concern about atmospheric aerosols, which are liquid droplets or particles that are suspended in the atmosphere. They absorb and reflect light,…
Aerosol Loading
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We are now a big world on a small planet. The Great Acceleration starts with the expansion of human exploitation of the world, seen in urbanization, land-use…
The Great Acceleration
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In this chapter, Virgilio Viana discusses holistic approaches to the design of public policies policies for sustainable development using his experience as state…
The Holistic Design of Public Policies for SDG 15
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