Books for the Course

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

Buy directly from Amazon here: http://www.amazon.com/Age-Sustainable-Development-Jeffrey-

Sachs/dp/0231173156/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8

Angus Maddison, The World Economy

http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/docserver/download/4106021e.pdf?
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Reading List

Week 1: What is Sustainable Development?

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

• Draft Framework for Sustainable Development, UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network

(22 pages) http://unsdsn.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/121220-Draft-Framework-of-Sustainable-
Development1.pdf

• 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) http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/RES/66/288&Lang=E

• Executive Summary of A New Global Partnership: Eradicate Poverty and Transform Economies
Through Sustainable Development, The Secretary General’s High Level Panel of Eminent Persons
on the Post-2015 Development Agenda (3 pages)
http://www.post2015hlp.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/UN-Report.pdf

• 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) http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/pdf/A%20Life%20of%20Dignity%20for
%20All.pdf

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

Development Solutions Network (3 pages) http://unsdsn.org/files/2013/11/An-Action-Agenda-for-
Sustainable-Development.pdf

Week 2: Economic development – How we measure it, how it varies around the world
• Sachs, Jeffrey D. Economic development – How we measure it, how it varies around the world
(coursebook chapter 2)

• Global Profile of Extreme Poverty and Hunger, UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network
http://unsdsn.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/121015-Profile-of-Extreme-Poverty.pdf

• Optional reading: Helliwell, John, Richard Layard and Jeffrey D. Sachs, World Happiness Report
2013. http://unsdsn.org/resources/publications/world-happiness-report-2013/

Week 3: A Short History of Economic Development

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

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

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

• Gallup, John, Andrew Mellinger and Jeffrey 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.
http://www.earth.columbia.edu/sitefiles/file/about/director/pubs/OxfordHandbook2000.pdf

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

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

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

• Sachs, Jeffrey D., et al. Ending Africa’s Poverty Trap pp. 1-22
http://www.unmillenniumproject.org/documents/BPEAEndingAfricasPovertyTrapFINAL.pdf

• Sachs, Jeffrey D., et al. Pathways to Deep Decarbonization 2014 report. http://unsdsn.org/wp-
content/uploads/2014/09/DDPP_Digit.pdf

Week 5: The MDGs and the End of Extreme Poverty

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

• United Nations Millennium Declaration (9 pages)

http://www.un.org/millennium/declaration/ares552e.pdf

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

http://www.unmillenniumproject.org/documents/overviewEngLowRes.pdf
• The Millennium Villages Project: The Next Five Years 2011-2015, (40 pages but with lots of
pictures) http://www.millenniumvillages.org/uploads/ReportPaper/MVP_Next5yrs_2011.pdf

• Global Development’s Winning Goals, Project Syndicate

http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/ensuring-the-success-of-the-un-s-sustainable-
development...

Week 6: Growth within Planetary Boundaries

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

• Sustainable Development and Planetary Boundaries by Johan Rockstrom et al. (22 pages)
http://www.eesc.europa.eu/resources/docs/sustainable-development-and-planetary-boundaries.pdf

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

• Resilient People, Resilient Planet: A Future Worth Choosing, Report of the Secretary General’s
Global Sustainability Panel. Chapter II: Progress Towards Sustainable Development pp. 15-27
https://en.unesco.org/system/files/GSP_Report_web_final.pdf

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

http://www.unep.org/geo/pdfs/GEO5_SPM_English.pdf

• Climate Change: Evidence and Causes

Week 7: Human Rights and Gender Equality

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

• Universal Declaration of Human Rights http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml

• United Nations Millennium Declaration http://www.un.org/millennium/declaration/ares552e.htm

• Overview and Key Messages from the Report on the Inequalities Consultation. The World We
Want: 2015 http://www.worldwewant2015.org/node/308651

• 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)
http://unsdsn.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/130114-Social-Exclusion-and-Human-Rights-Paper-
for-HLP....

• Taking Action: Achieving Gender Equality and Empowering Women, UN Millennium Project Task
Force on Gender Equality. Executive Summary (26 pages)
http://www.unmillenniumproject.org/documents/Gender-frontmatter.pdf
• 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)
http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/policy/untaskteam_undf/thinkpieces/10_inequalities.pdf

Week 8: Education

• Sachs, Jeffrey D. Education (coursebook chapter 8)

• Sachs, Jeffrey D. The Lost Generations, Project Syndicate

http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/education--nutrition--and-health-care-are-the-best-
inves...

• Education and skills for inclusive and sustainable development beyond 2015, UN System Task
Team on the Post-2015 Development Agenda (16 pages)
http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/policy/untaskteam_undf/thinkpieces/4_education.pdf

• International Commission on Education for Sustainable Development Practice Final Report,

Executive Summary (10 pages)
http://globalmdp.org/sites/ei.civicactions.net/files/InternationalCommissionReport.pdf

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

http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0021/002175/217509E.pdf

Week 9: Universal Health Coverage

• Sachs, Jeffrey 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) http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2001/924154550x.pdf

• One Million Community Health Worker Fact Sheet

http://1millionhealthworkers.org/files/2013/01/CHW_FactSheet_Final.pdf

• Bill Gates 2013 Annual Letter (19 pages)

http://www.gatesfoundation.org/~/media/GFO/Documents/Annual%20Letters/2013annualletter/
2013_AL_English.pdf

• Health in the Post-2015 Development Agenda, UN Task Team on the Post-2015 Development
Agenda (15 pages) http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/policy/untaskteam_undf/thinkpieces/
8_health.pdf

• Health in the Framework of Sustainable Development,

http://unsdsn.org/resources/publications/health-in-the-framework-of-sustainable-development/

Week 10: Sustainable Food Supply and the End of Hunger

• Sachs, Jeffrey 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) http://www.unmillenniumproject.org/documents/HTF-SumVers_FINAL.pdf

• Opportunities and Solutions for Sustainable Food Production, UN Sustainable Development

Solutions Network Thematic Group on Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems (24 pages)
http://unsdsn.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/130112-HLP-TG7-Solutions-for-sustainable-food-
productio...

Week 11: Sustainable Cities

• Sachs, Jeffrey 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)
http://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/2579Final-052013-SDSN-TG09-The-
Urban-Opportun...

• Sustainable Urbanization, UN Task Team on the Post-2015 Development Agenda (11 pages)
http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/policy/untaskteam_undf/thinkpieces/18_urbanization.pdf

Week 12: Curbing Climate Change

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

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

http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar4/wg1/ar4-wg1-spm.pdf

• Stern Review: The Economics of Climate Change, Executive Summary (27 pages)
http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/+/http:/www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/media/4/3/
Executive_Summary...

• Sachs, Jeffrey D. and Guido Schmidt-Traub. Financing for development and climate change post-
2015 (16 pages) http://unsdsn.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/130316-Development-and-Climate-
Finance.pdf

Week 13: Saving Biodiversity

• Sachs, Jeffrey D. Saving Biodiversity (coursebook chapter 13)

• Summary for Decision Makers: Ecosystems and Human Well Being, Synthesis, Millennium
Ecosystem Assessment (24 pages) http://www.unep.org/maweb/documents/document.356.aspx.pdf

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

Introduction (8 pages) http://www.cbd.int/doc/publications/gbo/gbo3-final-en.pdf
• The Economics of Desertification, Land Degradation and Drought: Methodologies and Analysis for
Decision-Making, 2nd Scientific Conference on the UNCCD; Executive Summary; Chapter 1:
Introduction; Chapter 2: Economic and social impacts of desertification, land degradation and
drought; Chapter 5: Implementation of the Rio conventions – a call for synergies to advance the
economics of desertification, land degradation and drought; Chapter 6: Using the Economics of
desertification, land degradation and drought to inform policies at local, national and international
level; Conclusion (26 pages)
http://2sc.unccd.int/fileadmin/unccd/upload/documents/Background_documents/
Background_Document_web3....

Week 14: The SDGs

• Sachs, Jeffrey D. The SDGs (coursebook chapter 14)

• A New Global Partnership: Eradicate Poverty and Transform Economies Through Sustainable
Development, The Secretary General’s High Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015
Development Agenda http://www.post2015hlp.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/UN-Report.pdf

• The Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals Interim Report

http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/67/941&Lang=E

• An Action Agenda for Sustainable Development, UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network

http://unsdsn.org/files/2013/11/An-Action-Agenda-for-Sustainable-Development.pdf