Description
This course introduces the academic approach of Sustainability and explores how today’s human societies can endure in the face of global change, ecosystem degradation and resource limitations. The course focuses on key knowledge areas of sustainability theory and practice, including population, ecosystems, global change, energy, agriculture, water, environmental economics and policy, ethics, and cultural history.
This subject is of vital importance, seeking as it does to uncover the principles of the long-term welfare of all the peoples of the planet. As sustainability is a cross-disciplinary field of study, this foundation requires intellectual breadth: understanding our motivations requires the humanities, measuring the challenges of sustainability requires knowledge of the sciences (both natural and social), and building solutions requires technical insight into systems (such as provided by engineering, planning, and management).
Learning Outcomes
- A deep connection to the most pressing environmental and social issues of our time
- Access to the latest expert thinking and inspiring leaders in sustainable business
- The knowledge, confidence and commitment to lead personal and professional change
After completing the course you will be able to:
- Identify new opportunities for impact, investment, innovation and collaboration
- Know and demonstrate your business case
- Communicate and influence effectively to make change happen