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Module 1: What is Sustainable Development?

Chapter 1: Introduction to Sustainable Development
Chapter 2: Economic Growth and Progress
Chapter 3: Continuing Poverty
Chapter 4: Environmental Threats
Chapter 5: Business As Usual Versus Sustainable Development
Chapter 6: From the MDGs to the SDGs: Agenda 2030

Module 2: Economic Development – How We Measure It, How It Varies Around the World

Chapter 1: Incomes Around the World
Chapter 2: Urban/Rural Inequality
Chapter 3: Income Inequality Within Countries
Chapter 4: Measuring Wellbeing
Chapter 5: Convergence or Divergence?

Module 3: A Short History of Economic Development

Chapter 1: Economic Development is New, Starting Around 1750
Chapter 2: The Industrial Revolution Starts in England
Chapter 3: The Great Waves of Technological Change
Chapter 4: The Diffusion of Economic Growth
Chapter 5: Economic Development Since World War II: The Making of Globalization

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

Chapter 1: The Idea of Clinical Economics
Chapter 2: The Role of Physical Geography: Transport, Energy, Disease, Crops
Chapter 3: The Role of Culture: Demography, Education, Gender
Chapter 4: The Role of Politics
Chapter 5: Which Countries Are Still Stuck in Poverty?

Module 5: The MDGs and the End of Extreme Poverty

Chapter 1: The Reasons to Believe that Extreme Poverty Can Be Ended
Chapter 2: A Strategy to End Extreme Poverty in Africa
Chapter 3: South Asia: The Continuing Challenge of the Food Supply
Chapter 4: A Closer Look at Official Development Assistance
Chapter 5: Designing Practical Interventions: The Case of Millennium Villages

Module 6: Growth within Planetary Boundaries

Chapter 1: The Origins of the Boundary Concept: Thomas Malthus
Chapter 2: Neo-Malthusian Frameworks: Growth Dynamics
Chapter 3: The 9 Planetary Boundaries
Chapter 4: Living Within Limits: Energy, Agriculture, Industr

Module 7: Human Rights and Gender Equality

Chapter 1: The Ethics of Wealth, Poverty, and Inequality
Chapter 2: Major UN Covenants and Declarations
Chapter 3: Divided Societies
Chapter 4: Forces of Widening Inequalities
Chapter 5: Gender Inequity

Module 8: Education

Chapter 1: Life-Cycle Approach to Human Development
Chapter 2: Early Childhood Development
Chapter 3: The Rising Returns to Education and the Supply Response
Chapter 4: Social Mobility
Chapter 5: The Role of Higher Education in Sustainable Development

Module 9: Universal Health Coverage

Chapter 1: The Human Right to Health
Chapter 2: Poverty and Disease
Chapter 3: Designing and Financing a Primary Health System in Low-Income Settings
Chapter 4: Ten Recommended Steps to Health for All in the Poorest Countries
Chapter 5: The Challenges of Health Coverage in High-Income Countries

Module 10: Sustainable Food Supply and the End of Hunger

Chapter 1: Malnutrition
Chapter 2: Farm Systems, Ecology, and Food Security
Chapter 3: How Environmental Change Threatens the Food System
Chapter 4: How the Food System Threatens the Environment
Chapter 5: Towards a Sustainable Global Food Supply

Module 11: Sustainable Cities

Chapter 1: The Patterns of Urbanization Around the World
Chapter 2: What Makes a City Sustainable?
Chapter 3: Smart Infrastructure
Chapter 4: Urban Resilience
Chapter 5: Planning for Sustainable Development

Module 12: Curbing Climate Change

Chapter 1: The Basic Science of Climate Change
Chapter 2: Consequences
Chapter 3: Mitigation
Chapter 4: Adaptation
Chapter 5: Mitigation Policies

Module 13: Saving Biodiversity

Chapter 1: What is Biodiversity?
Chapter 2: Biodiversity Under Threat
Chapter 3: Oceans and Fisheries
Chapter 4: Deforestation
Chapter 5: International Dynamics

Module 14: The Proposal for Sustainable Development Goals

Chapter 1: The Sustainable Development Goals
Chapter 2: Goal-Based Development
Chapter 3: Financing for Sustainable Development
Chapter 4: Principles of Good Governance
Chapter 5: Is Sustainable Development Feasible