The Age of Sustainable Development

开始时间: 04/22/2022 持续时间: 14 weeks

所在平台: CourseraArchive 课程类别: 人文 大学或机构: Columbia University（哥伦比亚大学） 授课老师： Jeffrey Sachs

课程主页: https://www.coursera.org/course/susdev

课程评论：没有评论

第一个写评论        关注课程

课程详情

This course provides an introduction to the interdisciplinary field of sustainable development, drawing on the most recent developments in the social, policy, and physical sciences. Sustainable development is the most urgent challenge facing humanity. The fundamental question is how the world economy can continue to develop in a way that is socially inclusive and environmentally sustainable. The course describes the complex interactions between the world economy and the Earth's physical environment. Ecological processes and constraints (climate, disease ecology, physical resources such as soils and energy sources, topography and transport conditions) significantly shape the patterns of economic development, demography, and wealth and poverty. At the same time, human activities (farming, land use, urbanization, demographic change, and energy use) change the physical environments, increasingly in dangerous ways. The course offers a broad overview of the key challenges and potential solutions to achieve sustainable development in the 21st century.

课程大纲

Lecture 1: What is Sustainable Development?

• Chapter 1: Introduction to Sustainable development
• Chapter 2: Economic growth and progress
• Chapter 3: Continuing poverty
• Chapter 4: Environmental threats hitting the rich and poor alike
• Chapter 5: The business as usual path versus the sustainable development path

Lecture 2: Economic Development – How we measure it, how it varies around the world

• Chapter 1: Incomes around the World
• Chapter 2: Urban/rural inequality
• Chapter 3: Income inequality within countries
• Chapter 4: Measuring wellbeing
• Chapter 5: Convergence or divergence?

Lecture 3: A Short History of Economic Development

• Chapter 1: Economic development is new, starting around 1750
• Chapter 2: The industrial revolution starts in England
• Chapter 3: The great waves of technological change
• Chapter 4: The diffusion of economic growth
• Chapter 5: Economic Development Since World War II: The Making of Globalization

Lecture 4: Why Did Some Countries Advance While Others Remained in Poverty?

• Chapter 1: The Idea of Clinical Economics
• Chapter 2: The role of physical geography: transport, energy, disease, crops
• Chapter 3: The role of culture: demography, education, gender
• Chapter 4: The role of politics
• Chapter 5: Which countries are still stuck in poverty?

Lecture 5: The MDGs and the End of Extreme Poverty

• Chapter 1: The Reasons to Believe that Extreme Poverty Can Be Ended
• Chapter 2: A Strategy to End Extreme Poverty in Africa
• Chapter 3: South Asia: The Continuing Challenge of the Food Supply
• Chapter 4: A Closer Look at Official Development Assistance
• Chapter 5:  Designing Practical Interventions: The Case of Millennium Villages

Lecture 6: Growth within Planetary Boundaries

• Chapter 1: The Planetary Boundaries
• Chapter 2: Growth Dynamics
• Chapter 3: Growth and Planetary Boundaries: The Case of Energy
• Chapter 4: Growth and Planetary Boundaries: The Case of Food
• Chapter 5: Growth and Planetary Boundaries: The Case of Population

Lecture 7: Human Rights and Gender Equality

• Chapter 1: The Ethics of Wealth, Poverty, and Inequality
• Chapter 2: Major UN Covenants and Declarations
• Chapter 3: Divided societies
• Chapter 4: Forces of Widening Inequalities
• Chapter 5: Gender Inequality and Solutions

Lecture 8:  Education

• Chapter 1: Life-cycle approach to human development
• Chapter 2: Early Childhood Development
• Chapter 3: The rising returns to education and the supply response
• Chapter 4: Social mobility
• Chapter 5: The role of higher education in sustainable development

Lecture 9: Universal Health Coverage

• Chapter 1: The human right to health
• Chapter 2: Poverty and disease
• Chapter 3: Designing and Financing a Primary Health System in Low-Income Settings
• Chapter 4: Ten Recommended Steps to Health for All in the Poorest Countries
• Chapter 5: The Challenges of Health Coverage in High-Income Countries

Lecture 10: Sustainable Food Supply and the End of Hunger

• Chapter 1: Malnutrition
• Chapter 2: Farm systems, ecology, and food security
• Chapter 3: How environmental change threatens the food system
• Chapter 4: How the food system threatens the environment
• Chapter 5: Towards a sustainable global food supply

Lecture 11: Sustainable Cities

• Chapter 1: The patterns of urbanization around the world
• Chapter 2: What makes a city sustainable?
• Chapter 3: Smart Infrastructure
• Chapter 4: Urban Resilience
• Chapter 5: Planning for Sustainable Development 

Lecture 12: Curbing Climate Change

• Chapter 1: The basic science of climate change
• Chapter 2: Consequences
• Chapter 3: Mitigation
• Chapter 4: Mitigation Policies
• Chapter 5: Policies and Global Cooperation for Climate Change

Lecture 13: Saving Biodiversity

• Chapter 1: What is biodiversity?
• Chapter 2: Biodiversity under threat
• Chapter 3: Oceans and fisheries
• Chapter 4: Deforestation
• Chapter 5: International dynamics

Lecture 14: The Sustainable Development Goals

• Chapter 1: The proposal for SDGs at Rio+20
• Chapter 2: Illustrative SDGs
• Chapter 3: Goal-Based Development
• Chapter 4: Financing for Sustainable Development
• Chapter 5: Principles of Good Governance

课程评论(0条)