Sustainable Development links

sus-dev-links.md

Quizz and assignments links

Links collected over the quizzes and the course book of the Coursera «The Age of Sustainable Development» course by Dr. Jeffrey D. Sachks.

Week 1: What is Sustainable Development?

• World Bank Indicator: http://data.worldbank.org/indicator
• GapMinder: http://www.gapminder.org/world
• Rule of 70: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_72

Week 2: Economic development – How we measure it, how it varies around the world

• UNPOP data on World Urbanization Prospects. http://esa.un.org/unup/CD-ROM/Urban-Rural-Population.htm
• Growth rates of cities around the world: http://www.citymayors.com/statistics/urban_growth1.html
• http://esa.un.org/unup/Analytical-Figures/Fig_2.htm
• UNDESA Population division country profiles: http://esa.un.org/unup/Country-Profiles/country-profiles_1.htm
• The Big Mac index from The Economist magazine: http://www.economist.com/content/big-mac-index

Week 3: A Short History of Economic Development

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

• IRI maproom, look at the graph of "Percent Occurrence of Climate Conditions Suitable for Malaria Transmission": http://iridl.ldeo.columbia.edu/maproom/Health/Regional/Africa/Malaria/CSMT/index.html
• Percent Occurence of Precipitation in the IRI maproom: http://iridl.ldeo.columbia.edu/maproom/Health/Regional/Africa/Malaria/CSMT/index.html?var=PcpnCondProb
• Transparency International Corruption Perception Index for 2013.: http://cpi.transparency.org/cpi2013/results

Week 5: The MDGs and the End of Extreme Poverty

• Maddison Project Database on "historical GDP per capita (GDPpc)": http://www.ggdc.net/maddison/maddison-project/data.htm
• FAOstat: http://faostat3.fao.org/faostat-gateway/go/to/home/E

Week 6: Growth within Planetary Boundaries

• The Keeling Curve http://keelingcurve.ucsd.edu/
• Figure https://d396qusza40orc.cloudfront.net/susdev%2FFigure%206.12.jpg

Week 7: Human Rights and Gender Equality

• Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) website: http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/hr_law.shtml

Week 8: Education

• The Great Gatsby curve http://www.bloomberg.com/infographics/2013-10-08/the-great-gatsby-curve-explained.html

Week 9: Universal Health Coverage

• WHO's Global Health Observatory Data Repositor: http://apps.who.int/gho/data/view.main.CM1320R?lang=en
• GBD Cause Patterns: http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/gbd/visualizations/gbd-cause-patterns

Week 10: Sustainable Food Supply and the End of Hunger

• Gapminder: http://www.gapminder.org/world
• World Development Indicators: table 2.18 http://wdi.worldbank.org/table/2.18
• FAOStat: http://faostat3.fao.org/faostat-gateway/go/to/home/E
• Map of dead thones: http://www.grida.no/graphicslib/detail/dead-zones-and-fertilizers_04bd#
• Global Forest Reosources: http://www.fao.org/forestry/fra/62219/en/

Week 11: Sustainable Cities

Week 12: Curbing Climate Change

Week 13: Saving Biodiversity

• Trends in the Human Use of Ecosystem Services and Enhancement or Degradation of the Service Around the Year 2000 - Provisioning services: http://www.greenfacts.org/en/ecosystems/figtableboxes/table2-1-trends-use-ecosystems-provisioning.htm
• IUCN Red List: https://d396qusza40orc.cloudfront.net/susdev/red%20list.png
• Decline in Trophic Level of Fisheries Catch Since 1950: http://www.grida.no/graphicslib/thumbs/1805c933-493c-4b85-be16-ad06eb342332/large/decline-in-trophic-level-of-fisheries-catch-since-1950_b1a2.jpg
• Global Forest Change: http://earthenginepartners.appspot.com/science-2013-global-forest
• Forest Cover: http://www.earth-policy.org/indicators/C56/forests_2012

Week 14: The SDGs

sus-dev-reading.md

Reading List

Week 1: What is Sustainable Development?

• Draft Framework for Sustainable Development, UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (22 pages) http://unsdsn.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/121220-Draft-Framework-of-Sustainable-Development1.pdf
• Presentation on Realizing the Future We Want for All, UN System Task Team on the Post-2015 Development Agenda http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/policy/untaskteam_undf/presentation_untt_report.pdf
• Part I: Our Common Vision of The Future We Want outcome document of the Rio+20 Conference (3 pages) http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/RES/66/288&Lang=E
• Executive Summary of A New Global Partnership: Eradicate Poverty and Transform Economies Through Sustainable Development, The Secretary General’s High Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda (3 pages) http://www.post2015hlp.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/UN-Report.pdf
• A life of dignity for all: accelerating progress towards the Millennium Development Goals and advancing the United Nations development agenda beyond 2015, Report of the UN Secretary General (19 pages) http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/pdf/A%20Life%20of%20Dignity%20for%20All.pdf
• Executive Summary of An Action Agenda for Sustainable Development, UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (3 pages) http://unsdsn.org/files/2013/11/An-Action-Agenda-for-Sustainable-Development.pdf

Week 2: Economic development – How we measure it, how it varies around the world

• Global Profile of Extreme Poverty and Hunger, UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network http://unsdsn.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/121015-Profile-of-Extreme-Poverty.pdf
• Optional reading: Helliwell, John, Richard Layard and Jeffrey D. Sachs, World Happiness Report 2013. http://unsdsn.org/resources/publications/world-happiness-report-2013/

Week 3: A Short History of Economic Development

• Maddison, Angus. The World Economy (available on Google Books). Chapter 1: Introduction and Summary and pp. 17-25 pp. 27-31 pp. 125-130
• Sachs, Jeffrey D. The End of Poverty Chapter 2: The Spread of Economic Prosperity
• Gallup, John, Andrew Mellinger and Jeffrey D. Sachs, “Climate, Coastal Proximity, and Development,” Oxford Handbook of Economic Geography, edited by Gordon L. Clark, Maryann P. Feldman, and Meric S. Gertler, Oxford University Press, 2000. http://www.earth.columbia.edu/sitefiles/file/about/director/pubs/OxfordHandbook2000.pdf

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

• Sachs, Jeffrey D. The End of Poverty. Chapter 3: Why Some Countries Fail to Thrive and Chapter 4: Clinical Economics (39 pages)
• Sachs, Jeffrey D., et al. Ending Africa’s Poverty Trap pp. 1-22 http://www.unmillenniumproject.org/documents/BPEAEndingAfricasPovertyTrapFINAL.pdf

Week 5: The MDGs and the End of Extreme Poverty

Week 6: Growth within Planetary Boundaries

• Sustainable Development and Planetary Boundaries by Johan Rockstrom et al. (22 pages) http://www.post2015hlp.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Rockstroem-Sachs-Oehman-Schmidt-Traub_Sustaina...
• Rockstrom, Johan. A safe operating space for humanity, Nature PD F File
• Resilient People, Resilient Planet: A Future Worth Choosing, Report of the Secretary General’s Global Sustainability Panel. Chapter II: Progress Towards Sustainable Development pp. 15-27 http://www.un.org/gsp/sites/default/files/attachments/GSP_Report_web_final.pdf
• Global Environmental Outlook 5: Summary for Policy Makers (20 pages) http://www.unep.org/geo/pdfs/GEO5_SPM_English.pdf
• Climate Change: Evidence and Causes

Week 7: Human Rights and Gender Equality

• Universal Declaration of Human Rights http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml
• United Nations Millennium Declaration http://www.un.org/millennium/declaration/ares552e.htm
• Overview and Key Messages from the Report on the Inequalities Consultation. The World We Want: 2015 http://www.worldwewant2015.org/node/308651
• Social Inclusion & Human Rights: Implications for 2030 and Beyond, Background paper for the High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda (6 pages) http://unsdsn.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/130114-Social-Exclusion-and-Human-Rights-Paper-for-HLP....
• Taking Action: Achieving Gender Equality and Empowering Women, UN Millennium Project Task Force on Gender Equality. Executive Summary (26 pages) http://www.unmillenniumproject.org/documents/Gender-frontmatter.pdf
• Addressing inequalities: The heart of the post-2015 agenda and the future we want for all, UN System Task Team on the Post-2015 Development Agenda (15 pages) http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/policy/untaskteam_undf/thinkpieces/10_inequalities.pdf

Week 8: Education

• Sachs, Jeffrey D. The Lost Generations, Project Syndicate http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/education--nutrition--and-health-care-are-the-best-inves...
• Education and skills for inclusive and sustainable development beyond 2015, UN System Task Team on the Post-2015 Development Agenda (16 pages) http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/policy/untaskteam_undf/thinkpieces/4_education.pdf
• International Commission on Education for Sustainable Development Practice Final Report, Executive Summary (10 pages) http://globalmdp.org/sites/ei.civicactions.net/files/InternationalCommissionReport.pdf
• Education for All: Global Monitoring Report, Summary (46 pages) http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0021/002175/217509E.pdf

Week 9: Universal Health Coverage

• Investing in Health for Economic Development, Report of the Commission on Macroeconomics and Health. Executive Summary (20 pages) http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2001/924154550x.pdf
• One Million Community Health Worker Fact Sheet http://1millionhealthworkers.org/files/2013/01/CHW_FactSheet_Final.pdf
• Bill Gates 2013 Annual Letter (19 pages) http://annualletter.gatesfoundation.org/pdf/2013_AL_English.pdf
• Health in the Post-2015 Development Agenda, UN Task Team on the Post-2015 Development Agenda (15 pages) http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/policy/untaskteam_undf/thinkpieces/8_health.pdf
• Health in the Framework of Sustainable Development, http://unsdsn.org/resources/publications/health-in-the-framework-of-sustainable-development/

Week 10: Sustainable Food Supply and the End of Hunger

• Halving Hunger: It Can Be Done, UN Millennium Project Hunger Task Force. Summary Report (30 pages) http://www.unmillenniumproject.org/documents/HTF-SumVers_FINAL.pdf
• Opportunities and Solutions for Sustainable Food Production, UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network Thematic Group on Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems (24 pages) http://unsdsn.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/130112-HLP-TG7-Solutions-for-sustainable-food-productio...

Week 11: Sustainable Cities

• The Urban Opportunity: Enabling Transformative and Sustainable Development, UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network Thematic Group on Sustainable Cities (40 pages) http://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/2579Final-052013-SDSN-TG09-The-Urban-Opportun...
• Sustainable Urbanization, UN Task Team on the Post-2015 Development Agenda (11 pages) http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/policy/untaskteam_undf/thinkpieces/18_urbanization.pdf

Week 12: Curbing Climate Change

• Summary for Policymakers, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (17 pages) http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar4/wg1/ar4-wg1-spm.pdf
• Stern Review: The Economics of Climate Change, Executive Summary (27 pages) http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/+/http:/www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/media/4/3/Executive_Summary...
• Sachs, Jeffrey D. and Guido Schmidt-Traub. Financing for development and climate change post-2015 (16 pages) http://unsdsn.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/130316-Development-and-Climate-Finance.pdf

Week 13: Saving Biodiversity

• Summary for Decision Makers: Ecosystems and Human Well Being, Synthesis, Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (24 pages) http://www.unep.org/maweb/documents/document.356.aspx.pdf
• Global Biodiversity Outlook 3, Convention on Biological Diversity. Executive Summary and Introduction (8 pages) http://www.cbd.int/doc/publications/gbo/gbo3-final-en.pdf
• The Economics of Desertification, Land Degradation and Drought: Methodologies and Analysis for Decision-Making, 2nd Scientific Conference on the UNCCD; Executive Summary; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Economic and social impacts of desertification, land degradation and drought; Chapter 5: Implementation of the Rio conventions – a call for synergies to advance the economics of desertification, land degradation and drought; Chapter 6: Using the Economics of desertification, land degradation and drought to inform policies at local, national and international level; Conclusion (26 pages) http://2sc.unccd.int/fileadmin/unccd/upload/documents/Background_documents/Background_Document_web3....

Week 14: The SDGs

• A New Global Partnership: Eradicate Poverty and Transform Economies Through Sustainable Development, The Secretary General’s High Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda http://www.post2015hlp.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/UN-Report.pdf
• The Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals Interim Report http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/67/941&Lang=E
• An Action Agenda for Sustainable Development, UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network http://unsdsn.org/files/2013/11/An-Action-Agenda-for-Sustainable-Development.pdf

Get we get answers to the quiz in the course - The Age of Sustainable Development

Get we get answers to the quiz in the course - The Age of Sustainable Development

I did this course in 2014, I don't have them anymore, sorry.