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Medium Of InstructionsMode Of LearningMode Of Delivery
EnglishSelf StudyVideo and Text Based

Courses and Certificate Fees

Fees InformationsCertificate AvailabilityCertificate Providing Authority
INR 2188yesCoursera

The Syllabus

Videos
  • Introduction to the Course
  • Created in the time of COVID-19
  • Why Sustainability AND Development?
  • The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in this Course4
  • Background and Scope for Achieving the SDGs
Readings
  • Recommended resources from Achieving the SDGs lecture
  • Course Syllabus
  • Help us learn more about you!
Practice Exercise
  • Week 1: Introductions

Videos
  • An Introduction to SDG 13: Climate Action
  • Climate Vulnerability & Adaptive Capacity in NE Brazil
Readings
  • Introduction to Michigan Sustainability Cases and Gala Platform
  • Case: Climate and Development
Practice Exercise
  • Week 2: Climate Change

Videos
  • Poverty, Inequality and Strategies to Address Them: Introduction
  • Definitions of Poverty
  • Introduction to 'What is Poverty?' and 'How is Poverty Measured?'
  • Measures of Poverty
  • Introduction to 'Hans Rosling's 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes'
  • Capacity to Reduce Poverty
  • Causes and Effects of Poverty and Inequality
  • Mechanisms to Address Poverty and Inequality
  • Attempts to Address Poverty and Inequality 
  • Social Assistance Programs
  • Effectiveness of Social Assistance Programs in Poverty Reduction
  • Income Generation Programs
  • Logic of Income Generation Programs: Graduation Programs
  • Different Forms of Capitals
  • Unemployment Benefit Programs
  • Drivers of Unemployment Benefits
  • Ecotourism and Payment for Ecosystem Services
  • Payments for Ecosystem Services: Continued
  • Examples of Payment for Ecosystem Services
  • Comparing Environment Vs. Economic Programs for Effects on Poverty
  • Future Trends that will Influence Poverty and Inequality
Readings
  • Additional Resources
  • 'The Poverty Trap'
  • 'Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES)'
  • Case: Poverty, Environment, and Inequality
Practice Exercise
  • Week 3: Poverty and Inequality

Videos
  • An Introduction to Ecosystem Degradation & Biodiversity Loss
  • What is driving change and what are the impacts?
  • What can we do to ameliorate these changes?
  • Opportunities to dive deeper and learn more
Readings
  • Case: Biodiversity Loss and Ecosystem Degradation
Practice Exercise
  • Week 4: Biodiversity Loss and Ecosystem Degradation

Videos
  • An Introduction to Sustainability Science
  • Implications for Sustainability and Development
  • Trade-Offs, Co-Benefits, and Transitions
  • Five Transitions of Human Societies: Demographic and Energy
  • Five Transitions of Human Societies: Forest, Agricultural, and Nutrition
  • How can past transitions guide sustainability transitions?
  • What can trade-offs and co-benefits look like?
  • Five programmatic examples demonstrating trade-offs and co-benefits
  • Improving Sustainability Solutions
Readings
  • Share Course Feedback!
Practice Exercise
  • Week 5: Trade Offs and Synergy

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