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Books for the Course

Sachs, Jerey, The Age of Sustainable Development (Available in stores and online)

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Angus Maddison, The World Economy

Reading List

Week 1: What is Sustainable Development?

Sachs, Jerey D. The Age of Sustainable Development (coursebook chapter 1)

Draft Framework for Sustainable Development, UN Sustainable Development Solutions

Network (22 pages)

Presentation on Realizing the Future We Want for All, UN System Task Team on the Post-2015
Development Agenda
http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/policy/untaskteam_undf/presentation_untt_report.pdf

Part I: Our Common Vision of The Future We Want, outcome document of the Rio+20
Conference (3 pages)

Executive Summary of A New Global Partnership: Eradicate Poverty and Transform Economies
Through Sustainable Development, The Secretary Generals High Level Panel of Eminent
Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda (3 pages)

A life of dignity for all: accelerating progress towards the Millennium Development Goals and
advancing the United Nations development agenda beyond 2015, Report of the UN Secretary
General (19 pages)

Executive Summary of An Action Agenda for Sustainable Development, UN Sustainable

Development Solutions Network (3 pages)

Week 2: Economic development How we measure it, how it varies around the world

Sachs, Jerey D. Economic development How we measure it, how it varies around the world
(coursebook chapter 2)

Global Prole of Extreme Poverty and Hunger, UN Sustainable Development Solutions

Network

Optional reading: Helliwell, John, Richard Layard and Jerey D. Sachs, World Happiness Report
2013.

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Week 3: A Short History of Economic Development

Sachs, Jerey D. A Short History of Economic Development (coursebook chapter 3)

Maddison, Angus. The World Economy (also available on Google Books). Chapter 1:
Introduction and Summary and pp. 125-130

Sachs, Jerey D. The End of Poverty Chapter 2: The Spread of Economic Prosperity

Gallup, John, Andrew Mellinger and Jerey D. Sachs, Climate, Coastal Proximity, and
Development, Oxford Handbook of Economic Geography, edited by Gordon L. Clark, Maryann
P. Feldman, and Meric S. Gertler, Oxford University Press, 2000.

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

Sachs, Jerey D. Why Did Some Countries Advance While Others Remained in Poverty?
(coursebook chapter 4)

Sachs, Jerey D. The End of Poverty. Chapter 3: Why Some Countries Fail to Thrive and Chapter
4: Clinical Economics (39 pages)

Sachs, Jerey D., et al. Ending Africas Poverty Trap pp. 1-22

Sachs, Jerey D., et al. Pathways to Deep Decarbonization 2014 report.

Week 5: The MDGs and the End of Extreme Poverty

Sachs, Jerey D. The MDGs and the End of Extreme Poverty (coursebook chapter 5)

United Nations Millennium Declaration (9 pages)

Investing in Development Overview Report, UN Millennium Project (65 pages)

The Millennium Villages Project: The Next Five Years 2011-2015, (40 pages but with lots of
pictures)

Global Developments Winning Goals, Project Syndicate

Week 6: Growth within Planetary Boundaries

Sachs, Jerey D. Growth within Planetary Boundaries (coursebook chapter 6)

Sustainable Development and Planetary Boundaries by Johan Rockstrom et al. (22 pages)

Rockstrom, Johan. A safe operating space for humanity, Nature PDF File

Resilient People, Resilient Planet: A Future Worth Choosing, Report of the Secretary Generals
Global Sustainability Panel. Chapter II: Progress Towards Sustainable Development pp. 15-27

Global Environmental Outlook 5: Summary for Policy Makers (20 pages)

Climate Change: Evidence and Causes

Week 7: Human Rights and Gender Equality

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Sachs, Jerey D. Human Rights and Gender Equality (coursebook chapter 7)

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

United Nations Millennium Declaration

Overview and Key Messages from the Report on the Inequalities Consultation. The World We
Want: 2015

Social Inclusion & Human Rights: Implications for 2030 and Beyond, Background paper for the
High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda(6 pages)

Taking Action: Achieving Gender Equality and Empowering Women, UN Millennium Project
Task Force on Gender Equality. Executive Summary (26 pages)

Addressing inequalities: The heart of the post-2015 agenda and the future we want for all, UN
System Task Team on the Post-2015 Development Agenda (15 pages)

Week 8: Education

Sachs, Jerey D. Education (coursebook chapter 8)

Sachs, Jerey D. The Lost Generations, Project Syndicate

Education and skills for inclusive and sustainable development beyond 2015, UN System Task
Team on the Post-2015 Development Agenda (16 pages)

International Commission on Education for Sustainable Development Practice Final Report,

Executive Summary (10 pages)

Education for All: Global Monitoring Report, Summary (46 pages)

Week 9: Universal Health Coverage

Sachs, Jerey D. Universal Health Coverage (coursebook chapter 9)

Investing in Health for Economic Development, Report of the Commission on Macroeconomics

and Health. Executive Summary (20 pages)

One Million Community Health Worker Fact Sheet

Bill Gates 2013 Annual Letter (19 pages)

Health in the Post-2015 Development Agenda, UN Task Team on the Post-2015 Development
Agenda (15 pages)

Health in the Framework of Sustainable Development

Week 10: Sustainable Food Supply and the End of Hunger

Sachs, Jerey D. Sustainable Food Supply and the End of Hunger (coursebook chapter 10)

Halving Hunger: It Can Be Done, UN Millennium Project Hunger Task Force. Summary Report
(30 pages)

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Opportunities and Solutions for Sustainable Food Production, UN Sustainable Development

Solutions Network Thematic Group on Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems (24 pages)

Week 11: Sustainable Cities

Sachs, Jerey D. Sustainable Cities (coursebook chapter 11)

The Urban Opportunity: Enabling Transformative and Sustainable Development, UN

Sustainable Development Solutions Network Thematic Group on Sustainable Cities (40 pages)

Sustainable Urbanization, UN System Task Team on the Post-2015 UN Development Agenda

(11 pages)

Week 12: Curbing Climate Change

Sachs, Jerey D. Curbing Climate Change (coursebook chapter 12)

Summary for Policymakers, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (17 pages)

Stern Review: The Economics of Climate Change, Executive Summary (27 pages)

Sachs, Jerey D. and Guido Schmidt-Traub. Financing for development and climate change
post-2015 (16 pages)

Week 13: Saving Biodiversity

Sachs, Jerey D. Saving Biodiversity (coursebook chapter 13)

Summary for Decision Makers: Ecosystems and Human Well Being, Synthesis, Millennium
Ecosystem Assessment (24 pages)

Global Biodiversity Outlook 3, Convention on Biological Diversity. Executive Summary and

Introduction (8 pages)

The Economics of Desertication, Land Degradation and Drought: Methodologies and Analysis
for Decision-Making, 2nd Scientic Conference on the UNCCD; Executive Summary; Chapter 1:
Introduction; Chapter 2: Economic and social impacts of desertication, land degradation and
drought; Chapter 5: Implementation of the Rio conventions a call for synergies to advance the
economics of desertication, land degradation and drought; Chapter 6: Using the Economics of
desertication, land degradation and drought to inform policies at local, national and
international level; Conclusion (26 pages)

Week 14: The SDGs

Sachs, Jerey D. The SDGs (coursebook chapter 14)

A New Global Partnership: Eradicate Poverty and Transform Economies Through Sustainable
Development, The Secretary Generals High Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015
Development Agenda

The Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals Interim Report

An Action Agenda for Sustainable Development, UN Sustainable Development Solutions

Network

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