Study Guide

Objective

After completing the course, the student will be able to:
- identify sustainability challenges and their interdependencies, as well as different perspectives on sustainability challenges and solutions that promote sustainable development;
- reflect on their own lifestyle and consumption choices, and the practices of their own professional field, from the perspectives of responsibility and sustainable development,
- use information related to sustainable development and their own professional field to find, implement and establish sustainable solutions and operating models.

Content

- The historical context of the sustainability crisis and the complexity of sustainability challenges
- Sustainable development as a concept and policy process
- Sustainability transition and ecological reconstruction
- Ecological sustainability: environmentally sustainable development
- Social and cultural sustainability: equitably distributed well-being and cultural diversity and vitality
- Economic sustainability: an economy that serves the well-being of people and the environment