Study Guide

Objective

After completing the course, the student will be able to:
- identify critical sustainability challenges, their causes and interdependencies, a as well as their diverse impacts on the environment and human beings,
- define key concepts relating to the different dimensions of sustainable development,
- identify the key sustainability goals and actors in sustainability policies and transitions,
- identify different perspectives and conflicts of values and interests related to solutions that promote sustainable development,
- consider their own lifestyle and consumption choices as well as the practices of their own professional field from the perspectives of responsibility and sustainable development.

Content

- The historical context of the sustainability crisis and the complexity of sustainability challenges
- Sustainable development as a concept and a policy process
- Sustainability transition and ecological reconstruction
- 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

Evaluation scale

Hyväksytty/Hylätty