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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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Natural Resources and the Broader Governance Framework

Governance is defined as a set of traditions and institutions by which authority in a country is exercised along the dimensions of political, economic, and institutional/institutional respect. The political: the process by which those who are in authority are selected, are monitored, and are replaced; measured through voice and democratic accountability, as well as political stability and absence of violence and terrorism. The economic: the capacity of government to formulate and implement…

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Virtue Ethics: An Indigenous Perspective

In this chapter, Grand-father T8aminik (Dominique) Rankin and Grand-mother Marie-Josée Tardif discuss ethics and the connections between people and the Earth in the Anishinaabe tradition of northeast North America. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license.

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The Role of Global Partnerships for Sustainable Development

The international context of achieving the sustainable development goals. Agenda 2030 puts a big emphasis on global partnerships and SDG 17 is about global partnerships. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license.

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International governance initiatives

International initiatives have emerged since the late 1990s to mitigate the negative impacts of natural resources welath. These include: the extractive industries transparency initiative (EITI) and the World Bank's online extractive industries Sourcebook, among others. Other initiatives not specific to the extractives sector include: the OECD G20 inclusive framework on base erosion and profit shifting (giving governments tools to combat tax avoidance). A number of leading NGOs have also…

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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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Introducing SDG 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions

SDG 16 seeks to promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels. The following video provides a look into three of the above targets: reduce illicit financial and arms flows, reduce corruption and bribery, and develop accountable and transparent institutions. The focus of the discussion is on how we should interpret SDG 16 and it provides another example of how the…

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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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Challenges for Food Loss and Food Waste and Opportunities for Reduction

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 tons of food produced annually. for human consumption is wasted along the food supply chain. Food loss is a decrease in quality and the quantity of food reflected in nutritional value, economic value, or food safety of all food produced for human consumption, but not eaten by humans. Food waste is part of food loss and refers to…