Sustainability and Development by Coursera

Scope of Sustainable Development Goals (SGDs)

Climate change and impact on populations

Poverty and inequality, approaches and opportunities

Biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation

Sustainability science and its applications to sustainability and development

Data types, data visualization and hypothesis testing

Geographic information systems: application, demonstration and limitations

Impact evaluation

Life cycle analysis

Institutional analysis and development and cost benefit analysis

Definitions and measures of poverty

Frameworks for understanding poverty and development

Societal shifts and macro-policies for poverty

Micro-level interventions of wellbeing

The state of current food production, food security and hunger

Extensification and intensification

Ways to reduce food waste / loss

Health and environmental impact of different diets

Adapting food systems to climate change

Major risk factors for mortality and morbidity

Basic terminology and concepts of epidemiology

Poverty, inequality and health linkages

Institutions and data for ensuring and understanding good health and wellbeing

Environment and health linkages

SDG 3 constraints and opportunities for a broader conception of good health

Definitions and dominant approaches for SDG 4 and SDG 5

Structural barriers to quality education access

Gender, social equity and digital divides

Innovations in teaching and learning about sustainability

Distinguish among different definitions of adaptation and how they intersect with development at different scales of decision-making and governance

Synthesize and integrate different disciplines and methods to design and evaluate solutions

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 13 (Climate Change) and its relationship with development and adaptation

Implications of different adaptation actions for climate justice

Develop climate resilient pathways solutions through frameworks and evidence

Where conservation originates and what informs these ideas

Nuances behind the polarization of how, if, when and under what considerations conservation and development should be jointly considered in planning for sustainable development

Develop ideas and context related to how and why conservation failures are rooted in everyday life and politics

Understand the environmental and political history of community-based conservation and its effectiveness

Identify what is gained and what is lost in incentive-based conservation and well as who benefits and who loses out from these strategies and to what effect