About this Course
This course introduces the educational strategy of Sustainability and explores how at present’s human societies can endure within the face of worldwide change, ecosystem degradation and useful resource limitations. The course focuses on key information areas of sustainability concept and follow, together with inhabitants, ecosystems, world change, power, agriculture, water, environmental economics and coverage, ethics, and cultural historical past.
This topic is of significant significance, in search of because it does to uncover the ideas of the long-term welfare of all of the peoples of the planet. As sustainability is a cross-disciplinary subject of examine, this basis requires mental breadth: as I describe it within the class textual content, understanding our motivations requires the humanities, measuring the challenges of sustainability requires information of the sciences (each pure and social), and constructing options requires technical perception into programs (corresponding to offered by engineering, planning, and administration).
Syllabus – What you’ll study from this course
3 hours to finish
Orientation and Introduction
On this module, you’ll change into accustomed to the course, your classmates, and the educational atmosphere. The orientation additionally helps you receive the technical abilities required for the course. Within the introduction, we’ll study a number of the central concepts that underpin the Earth as a system, and their penalties for environmental sustainability.
3 hours to finish
Inhabitants
On this module, we’ll see how human populations have advanced over time and get a way of the place the following century of change will take us.
4 hours to finish
Ecosystems and Local weather Change
On this module, we’ll see that the Earth faces many environmental pressures that outcome from human exploitation of pure sources. We can even take a look at the difficulty of local weather change.
3 hours to finish
Power
On this module, we’ll take a look at power use. We can even contemplate what the development of power use means for the planet, and the way we would transition to a extra sustainable sample of use.
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