SDG Academy Library

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Public Awareness and Consumer Activism

In this chapter, Professor Sachs talks about the importance of civil awareness of sustainable development and the desire of society to improve economic conditions, improve social inclusion, and move towards environmental sustainability. He provides cases of how citizens can be active, including ethical consumerism and behavioral shifts. This vide o is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license.

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How a Company Decides to Invest in a Project

This chapter overviews investments in oil, gas and mining projects. It includes a comparison of private and state ventures. Sources of income include: cash from existing projects and retained earnings, bank borrowings against the corporate balance sheet, or project finance specifically loaned against the capacity of that project. The chapter also details the various analyses and assessments done by companies technical, social, governmental, and financial. Sir Mark Moody Stuart stresses that…

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Sea-Based Globalization

This chapter focuses on the fourth wave of globalization, or the era of ocean-based globalization, and the period between Christopher Columbia and James Watt, the inventor of the steam engine. This wave of globalization brings together Eurasia, Africa, the Americas, Oceania, and Australia. China led ocean-based navigation, and then the Iberian pen insula and Britain became navigational leaders as well; Professor Sachs give examples of explorers and famous voyages. Reference is made to the search…

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Case study: Avoid using single use plastics

In this video, Dr Kim Borg discusses a project she was involved with about the problem of the use of single use plastics, and the influence of media campaigns that aim to deter consumers from purchasing such items. In her video, she presents evidence that certain types of media campaigns work better than others, particularly when the target audien ce has certain attitudes. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license.

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Financing Sustainable Development

How are resources mobilized to achieve sustainable development? This question is addressed in this video about financing the SDGs. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license.

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Interference with Global Nitrogen and Phosphorous Cycles

This chapter discusses human impacts on the global nitrogen and phosphorus cycles that link the living and non-living parts of the Earth system. These chemical relationships control the general pattern of interaction between geological and biological processes. Professor Cornell uses diagrams that show present day cycles, flows between stocks, and human changes. While people are most familiar with carbon, nitrogen is also a very important element for life on Earth. Nitrogen is fixed from the…

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Education for a Connected World

This video looks at the effect of the technological revolution on the way education is perceived and implemented world wide, focusing on developing coherent policies on ICT for education. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license.

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Markets and Supply Chains

Price fluctuations happen as a result of the storage process from seasonal harvests and the working of the markets and the supply chain, as these harvests need to be transported between production and consumption. In off-farm storage, there are issues of food safety, processing, and quality assurance. Seasonal price changes reflect the cost of sto rage because when simultaneous harvests occur across a huge area, prices are low, but after that, prices rise by exactly the cost of storage, or the…

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The Classical World

This chapter focuses on the third wave of globalization (land-based globalization), the Classical Age of the Roman Empire and the Han Empire in China, and the role of physical ecology in shaping geopolitics and imperial dynamics. Professor Sachs notes that the Roman Empire follows the Mediterranean climate zone east to west; their conquest was supported by wheat and olive crops, and limited north and south by climate zones. The H ellenic empire of Alexander and the Han Empire of China follow…