This course will integrate the SDG Academy online lectures with six in class sessions. Key components of the course include: • Online lectures offered through the SDG Academy. • Six in class sessions at PCGS • A class project in the Blue Community UNTWO INSTO • Optional trip to the United Nations during the High Level Political Forum. • Certificate upon successful completion from the SDG Academy • Topics including Economic Development, Planetary Boundaries, Human Rights, Education, Sustainable Food and Hunger, Climate Change, Biodiversity, and the new UN Sustainable Development Goals. • Three PCGS faculty providing lectures for the course. For further information Contact: Dr. David Randle Telephone 727-388-6675 Email: [email protected]or Louis Zunguze, MURP Telephone 801-5601270 Email: [email protected]The Age Of Sustainable Development 2018 Summer Course Opportunity
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This course will integrate the SDG Academy online lectures with six in class sessions. Key components of the course include: • Online lectures offered through the SDG Academy.
• Six in class sessions at PCGS
• A class project in the Blue Community UNTWO INSTO
• Optional trip to the United Nations during the High LevelPolitical Forum.
• Certificate upon successful completion from the SDGAcademy
• Topics including Economic Development, PlanetaryBoundaries, Human Rights, Education, Sustainable Foodand Hunger, Climate Change, Biodiversity, and the newUN Sustainable Development Goals.
• Three PCGS faculty providing lectures for the course.
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. Students will explore the specific challenges of these sustainable development themes in the nine communities of the Blue Community Sustainable Tourism Observatory and work individually or in teams to improve the path to sustainability in one or more of these communities.
Faculty for the Course include:
Dr. David Randle -Sustainable Tourism (top)
Louis Zunguze MURP -Coastal Sustainability (Center)
Richard Jordan - BlueCommunity U.N. Liaison (Bottom)
Watch Video Intro of SDG Academy Lectures
“The Age of Sustainable Development” gives students an understanding of the key challenges and pathways to sustainable development – that is, economic development that is also socially inclusive and environmentally sustainable.
