Concepts in Sustainable Development: An Introduction to the Key Issues
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Course overview
- Provider
- Futurelearn
- Course type
- Free trial availiable
- Deadline
- Flexible
- Duration
- 6 hours
- Course author
- Derek Raine
Description
Explore some of the key issues in sustainability, tackling the big questions with examples from around the world.
Get an introduction to the key issues in sustainability
In this course you will study the conceptual foundations of sustainable development, and discuss the issues around sustainability as a complex problem.
We’ll look at the flow of energy and materials worldwide; social and political issues; wealth inequality; the impact of geography, history and culture on sustainability today; and the problems of collective action. Finally, we’ll conduct a SWOT analysis, looking at our resilience and prospects in the face of climate change and other global issues in sustainability. We’ll ask: are we doomed?
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