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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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The Ethics of Sustainable Development

This chapter is the final chapter in the Sustainable Development: the Post Capital Order course, and looks at the ethics of sustainable development, looking at key ethical thinkers in sustainable development from Aristotle to Pope Francis. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license.

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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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Environmental Planning, Management and the Politics of Change

This video is part of Module 7: How can the urban environment be protected and cities be made resilient? Learn how the government, the private sector, and other actors can support sustainable urban development. What are the challenges of urban politics and governance? 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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What is Urban Poverty?

This video is part of Module 3: How can we reduce urban poverty and make cities inclusive and safe? In this course learn about the major challenges currently faced by urban areas around the world – including poverty, unemployment, poor housing infrastructure, and constraints on productivity – and the extraordinary potential of these areas to enable change in the future. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license.

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Sustainable Development and the Need for Ethics in Action

This chapter introduces the Ethics in Action Initiative as a forum through which religious leaders and scholars from traditions around the world came together to find common ground on which to address shared challenges. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license.

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Disasters and Public Health

Disasters of various kinds, including hurricanes, monsoons, earthquakes, and landslides, poses a public health emergency. In this video, Professor K. Sinrath Reddy addresses how these disasters affect health and how global public health can prepare for these emergencies, especially with the impending increase of natural disasters with the rise of climate change. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license.

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Introduction: Early Childhood Development for Sustainable Development

An introduction to the course The Best Start in Life: Early Childhood Development for Sustainable Development. This course is about children in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals. Children arguably have the most at stake in the changes that will result from the SDGs, and will be the generation to support the future of sustainable development. What does child development, particularly the period of development for the prenatal period to age 8, look like in different societal and…