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Certificate of Achievement

VICENTE JORGE SANCHIS RICO

has completed the following course:

Sustainable Development Goals: People, Place, and Environment

The University of Waikato

This online course explored the question 'how do we - individually and collectively - create sustainable and fair futures'? The United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals were explained and examined across personal, domestic, neighbourhood, urban, environmental and national geographies. The course highlighted the importance of understanding social and cultural contexts in shaping our everyday lives. A commitment to inclusivity - leaving no one behind - was at the heart of the course.

4 weeks, 3 hours per week

Professor Lynda Johnston

Assistant Vice-Chancellor Sustainability

The University of Waikato

Dr Gail Adams-Hutcheson

Geographer

The University of Waikato

Transcript

Learning outcomes

  • Demonstrate knowledge of Sustainable Development Goals
  • Identify the importance of matāuranga Māori (Indigeneous knowledge) to SDGs
  • Demonstrate how the SDGs link with people, place and environment
  • Explain how SDGs work at different spatial scales
  • Assess the SDGs in a critical manner
  • Evaluate SDG projects and apply them to your local context
  • Engage with other learners to explore personal experience and apply these to SDGs

Syllabus

  • Introducing the SDGs and ideas of scale, context, and indigenous knowledge
  • Examining the interconnection between global and local SDGs and why personal experiences matter
  • Investigating the connection between home and SDGs with case studies on everyday food waste from your fridge and disability and inclusion
  • Reporting on community SDG projects and developing an understanding of sustainability action in neighbourhoods, with case studies on food poverty and food distribution in suburbs and permaculture and climate action
  • Reflecting on cities by examining gender equality versus gender equity and monuments that reflect gender, ethnic politics
  • Examining SDGs at a national level, including carbon footprints and carbon off-set projects, Indigenous approaches to climate justice and agricultural practices, dairy industry and water

Issued on 7th April 2022

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Free online course:

Sustainable Development Goals: People, Place, and Environment

The University of Waikato