Fundamentals of Sustainable DevelopmentLaajuus (1 cr)

Objective

After completing the online course, the student will be able to:
- identify critical sustainability challenges, their causes, as well as their diverse impacts on the environment and human beings,
- describe the roles various institutions and social actors have in sustainability policies and sustainability transformation,
- recognize the different dimensions of sustainable development and the key concepts and sustainability goals relating to them,
- distinguish various perspectives and conflicts of values and interests related to sustainability issues and solutions promoting sustainable development,
- reflect on their lifestyle and consumption choices as well as the practices of their professional field from the perspectives of responsibility and sustainable development.

Content

- Historical context of the sustainability crisis and the complexity of sustainability challenges
- Sustainable development as an idea(l), sustainability goals, and the related policy process
- Sustainability transformation and ecological reconstruction
- Dimensions of sustainable development and their interdependencies
- Environmental sustainability: preserving ecological balance and a healthy planet
- Social and cultural sustainability: fairly distributed human well-being
- Economic sustainability: an economy that serves the well-being of people and the planet