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SDG 17
Courses tagged with "SDG 17"
This free short course addresses the key elements of designing a development intervention. Its approach to ‘doing development’ will be value led rather than technical. There is a wealth of material teaching a technical approach to development intervention. This course seeks to shift the balance back to a value based approach to doing development. It will be rich with the voices of the poor and advocate for a particular approach to development, namely adaptive management. The course will be open to all with the only prerequisite an interest in how to do development differently.
Category: Leadership & Management
It might seem daunting but there are lots of steps we can take as individuals to reduce our digital carbon footprint. We can help you make a start.
Category: Nature & Environment
With many people preferring to work from home, whether hybrid or full time, this article examines the carbon footprint cost of remote working.
Category: Nature & Environment
Some of the 27,000 children born during the two weeks of COP26 will be 71 years old on the 100th Anniversary of the Rio 1992 Earth Summit. As that generation retells the story of how the nations of the world worked together to eventually limit dangerous global heating, Glasgow’s COP26 will be worth a mention.
Category: Nature & Environment
Chief OU observer ‘optimistic’ after first three days.
Category: Nature & Environment
Sue Edwards was a prominent British-Ethiopian botanist and an environmental and development champion. Yoseph Araya reflects on her life in this article...
Category: Nature & Environment
At COP26 in Glasgow, we saw that scientists, politicians, and environmental activists love their jargon. Everyone who attended came away with a new climate buzzword firmly planted in their minds: nature-based solutions.
Category: Nature & Environment
Paul Tucker speaks with Prof. Simon Bell about what systems thinking in regards to sustainability.
Category: Nature & Environment
Why might it not be science that holds the key to combatting climate change?
Category: Nature & Environment
Reflections on how higher education institutions are working together to tackle climate change.
Category: Nature & Environment
Climate change is a key issue on today's social and political agenda. This free course explores the basic science that underpins climate change and global warming.
Category: Nature & Environment
It is believed that environmental management requires action at all levels and by organisations of all types and sizes. However it is not always clear what we mean by environmental management and the role that organisations do and could play. This free course, explores the different interpretations and viewpoints involved by using system thinking to provide a framework with which to better understand environmental management and organisations.
Category: Nature & Environment
Divestment from fossil fuels has increased over the last decade as a moral and financial response to the climate crisis, but is it an effective approach to tackle the severity of challenges we now face and how can it support the goals of COP26?
Category: Environmental Studies
Sustainable Scotland is a free course that will appeal to anyone with an interest in a sustainable future in the context of contemporary Scottish society. It will give you a broad-based introduction to a number of different aspects of sustainability that impact on Scotland and the wider world.
Category: Environmental Studies
Human societies have to take urgent action to end their dependences on fossil fuels. We have to alter the whole path of our development and decision making in order to make our societies both environmentally adaptable and sustainable. This free course, Climate change, takes on the task of trying to chart some of the ways in which it might be possible.
Category: Environmental Studies
How might an Indigenous artwork transform responses to Climate Change? Find out as a Totonac totem travels to COP26.
Category: Creative Climate
Global biodiversity is in decline and the spotlight is on all of us to act to help monitor and protect the variety of ecosystems to reduce deterioration. This loss affects ecosystems, species and habitats on which all life on earth depends. What can and should we be doing to help sustain nature?
Category: Creative Climate
Silvio Sinibaldi explores some of the current challenges and opportunities in planetary protection.
Category: Across the Sciences
This course explores how environmental and social factors interact to cause wildfires and shows why these interactions need to be considered when preparing for future wildfires. Focusing on the 2007 wildfires in Greece, this course introduces students to the geographical concept of entanglement as a tool for exploring these interrelated factors. Using the ideas of the environmental historian Stephen Pyne, the course establishes that wildfires are entangled physical, ecological, and human processes. Then it helps students critique the relative benefits of trying to prevent or respond to the environmental challenge of wildfires in the future.
Category: Society, Politics & Law