The Age of Sustainable Development

Great lecturer, great course connecting all the dots and facilitating a deeper understanding of sustainable development and the most pressing issues that humanity and our planet need to address.

However, it should be updated in order to reflect the current developments in terms of Sustainable Development especially regarding the SDG by the UN.

Very interesting and useful course when one want to learn about all aspects of sustainable development in depth.

Very important lessons, followed through by good examples of how the future of sustainable development can work (E.g permits for CO2 use, or the green revolution).

Excellent course presented by on the leading experts on sustainable development.

I am confident to share my insights about sustainable development in my career An absolutely brilliant course that covers all the dimensions of sustainable development!!!

There is some great material in here (especially detailing the more hopeful aspects of sustainable development).

Overall, I learnt a great deal & inspired me in my next job that has a focus on sustainable development.

It provides a broad economic and social perspective on the implications related to sustainable development models A very thorough and interesting introduction to sustainable development by Professor Sachs.

The course is well and clearly structured, but I would also recommend purchasing Prof. Sachs’ book as a companion Thank yo for this enlightening course related to Sustainable development which involves every individual living on our planet Very interesting and motivating course.

I liked the way data was incorporated although unfortunately some links to statistics did not work Its one of the best introductory online courses out there for Sustainable Development.

The course takes one through multiple facets of sustainable development and why everyone needs to act towards a sustainable society.

Highly recommended for everyone.

Highly recommended.

highly recommended!

Lectures are carefully prepared and all the information supported with data.Highly recommended.

Really impressive course, easy yet very informative, highly recommended!

Highly recommended!

Overall, highly recommended.

highly recommended Great course.

Very comprehensive and instrumental, highly recommended!

Highly recommended An enlightening and valid course for learning in sustainable development.

I highly recommend this course to everyone.

Occasional links expired 這不是一門簡單的課程，我覺得課程內容也有涉及到金融學的一定知識，我正在堅持，希望能完成課程。 The course covers various topics about sustainability from different perspectives beginning from what is sustainability, who and what get impacted, what is being done and what can be done to ensure sustainable economic development and various other aspects.I highly recommend this course to every one, for a well encapsulated curriculum and for great awareness.

I highly recommend this course to anyone who is interested on this urgent and fascinating topic.

Excellent course to learn about sustainable development, climate change, education, food security, health, biodiversity.

Hats off to Professor Sachs One of the few courses I have taken that presents a detailed overview of the "super wicked" problem of balancing growth and development with curbing climate change.

The quizzes/tests were also based on regurgitation of data/knowledge, rather than higher-order thinking such as application or synthesis Great survey course about sustainable development, covering all aspects including economics, health, urban development, energy, climate change, and many others.

Very good examples and tests I feel Proactive now with regards to climate change.

Climate Changes and its impact on Global Security and Future threats were very important topics which drew my attention.

Overall, the course is outstanding, bringing together diverse threads of Global Health, Climate Change, Economics, International Politics/Relations and more into a cohesive explanation of our current world challenges standing in the way of living together on this planet for a long time to come without our current inequalities and threats to life itself.

A very complete view of sustainable development, from all kind of perspectives from global development goals to fighting the poor and from climate change to sustainable food production.

Overall It was an excellent course and I am happy to learn much more about the world economy, the ecosystem, impact of climate change, greenhouse impact and the sustainable development.

Some of the links are no longer functioning and thus, gaining access to exact information for the past (2013) is not possible.

It would also appear that many of such questions relate to old data that is no longer available and should be updated.

The Prof knows a lot, just a little bit boring=) A comprehensive course, with lots of good data supporting the units, however the homework is challenging as many of the links no longer work or data sets have been updated since the course was first posted, making it hard to answer the questions.

The only reason why I did not give this 5/5 is that there were more than a few links that were no longer valid or the information was no longer accessible which required further research or guessing in the tests and exams.

However, some updating is required as many links within the quizzes are no longer relevant, or the webpages are non-existent.

Great course, learnt a lot.

Learnt a lot even though I thought I knew some it was taught in detail by professor Sachs and He is very well rounded in all issues not just economics, I'm pleased I learnt so many know ideas and information with a broad perspective with Sustainable Development.

I learnt a lot of important concepts regarding sustainability of our human race.

The link for Q6 and Q7 in the Final Exam were expired.

Final Examination had many questions that did not relate with the contents that we saw in the Chapters, such as questions n.21, 22,23 and 24 please replace them !I liked specially the Graphs and the Data Banks presented by organizations such as The World Bank.

I guessed and got wrong two answers in the final exam because the resources were no longer available (the new updated version of the graph had different measures).

Final exam was great and corrected above mistake.

Especially for quizzes and the final exam some sources were thus not adequately available.

So, overall a brilliant overall view!I have a problem with the questions though - the format and type of questions in the end of unit and final exams were mostly of Data Interpretation type i.e.

El curso que acabo de culminar me es de gran importancia porque me permite ampliar y reforzar el tema del Desarrollo Sostenible.

Soy, peruano, investigador social, columnista y autor de cuatro libros y voy por el quinto que se titulará 'Minería y Desarrollo Sostenible' (Enero 2017) en el cual aludiré a la propuesta del profesor Sachs (Convergencia y Gobernanza) la del Pnuma (Desacoplar y la Economía Verde) y las mías propias, que adelanto que junto con el tema de la Gobernanza se hace imprescindible un quinto soporte para el Desarrollo Sostenible: la decisión y compromiso de la comunidad con el Desarrollo Sostenible.

Si no existe esta decisión y compromiso, el Desarrollo Sostenible no será viable.

Excelente introducción al Desarrollo Sostenible.

Es un curso interesantísimo, que te enseña la complejidad del concepto de desarrollo sostenible desde un lenguaje directo y sencillo.

Besides, sometimes the links didn't work.Some of the lectures were a bit too long, they could have been explained in a shorter and simpler way taking advatage of the visual media.

Love to listen to his profund analysis, precise explanation and perspective of the word in the age of sustainability useful knowledge The course is too long.

Videos are also too long and are not so interactive so students could get bored.

This course has great and extensive content, though lectures have been too long for me.

Looking forward to great learning experience.

An incredible learning experience, understanding history of economic development, the impact of humans on our resources and options for sustainable development across the critically important SDG's!

a complete learning experience.

Excelente curso, es impresionante saber lo crítico de la situación en el mundo y que tan frágiles somos.

Best course I have ever taken on Coursera.

Changed my life, best course I've ever taken!