AGE OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT-COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY(COURSERA)

MODULE 01:Information about the general course structure and reading list can be found here.
MODULE 02:Professor Sachs provides an overview of the challenges the world faces and introduces the topic of sustainable development.
MODULE 03:Professor Sachs delves into the reasons for and the measurements of inequality between and within countries.
MODULE 04:Professor Sachs provides a history of economic development, starting with the Industrial Revolution and ending with the current state of modern economic growth.
MODULE 05:Professor Sachs analyzes the intersecting roles of various factors that contribute to some countries advancing while others do not.
MODULE 06:Professor Sachs outlines the pathways for achieving the end of extreme poverty.
MODULE 07:Professor Sachs details the various planetary boundaries and their implications for growth dynamics.
MODULE 08:Professor Sachs delves into the ethics of wealth, poverty, and inequality as well as the forces that widen inequalities.
MODULE 09:Professor Sachs provides an overview of the challenges and pathways to achieving universal health coverage.
MODULE 10:Professor Sachs provides an overview of food security, farm systems, and ecology and reviews what can be done to achieve a sustainable global food supply.
MODULE 11:Professor Sachs looks into what makes a city sustainable, the patterns of urbanization, and pathways for urban resilience around the world.