ERST 636
Aspects of Sustainability: An International Perspective
Course overview
You’ll delve deeply into the concept of sustainability, looking at both national and international sustainability issues and approaches to equitable use of natural resources.
Course information
| Available semesters | Semester 2 2024 |
|---|---|
| Credits | 20 |
| Domestic fees | $1,394.00 |
What you will learn
After successfully completing this course, you’ll be able to:
- Apply systems thinking to examine the root causes of unsustainability, and potential systemic changes to address these
- Critically evaluate the contribution to sustainability and sustainable development being made by one international initiative
- Debate the potential contribution of different economic paradigms and approaches to a sustainability transition, based on a critical review of recent literature
- Critically evaluate the role of individual paradigms, knowledge, practices and conceptions of wellbeing to sustainability and unsustainability
- Working with others, design and plan a project that will effectively contribute to sustainability
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