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About the Course

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: as I describe it in the class text, 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)....

Top reviews

KF

Dec 18, 2016

It is a well prepared course. Contents are carefully organized and plenty of concepts and examples are included and analyzed. Overall, it is a excellent course to get an overview of sustainability.

MN

Aug 22, 2020

This is a nice course for anyone who wants to have a start on this journey. It is easy to understand, covers a lot of topics that relates to everything and give you a profound insight of the world

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Aug 25, 2020

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By Dhiraj S

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Jul 7, 2020

good

By Koustav M

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Jun 20, 2020

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Dec 8, 2016

Good

By Pedro M A C

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Nov 5, 2016

good

By mayank j s

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Sep 29, 2020

no

By Sakshi S

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Nov 19, 2020

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By Nourah A

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Nov 13, 2022

The information and statistics provided are no longer up to date. Most of the data is from 2012.

By Tasrif N A

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Aug 4, 2020

Lectures need to be more interesting during presentation & the information needs to be updated.

By Anivarya G

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Apr 5, 2021

Please update the stats and facts.

By Bj G M R

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Oct 14, 2023

This course has been impactful

By Deleted A

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May 30, 2022

Buen material, Buen curso.

By Rama K

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Mar 11, 2021

Good

By Tiziana B

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Sep 30, 2020

It's a complicated course where not all the concepts are clearly and straightforwardly explained. The questions I find in the quizzes I feel do not match the info that I've been studying and certain mathematical concepts (which are out of my skillset) complicate it even further for me. I've been stuck on week 3 for weeks and I feel demoralized. Never had I flunk so badly. Some of the lessons have been ok and interesting so far. I think the homeworks and tests are poorly execute and lack precision or coherence from the lessons they correspond to.

By Jennifer M L

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Sep 23, 2023

Interesting, but outdated stats/ information. Needs to be updated and moderated.

By Audrey C

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Mar 7, 2021

There's something wrong with the quiz answers. Even if you select the correct answer, it marks it wrong. Other stdents seem to experience this as well and it's incredibly frustrating and is annoying enough that I am dropping the course after just the second "week.".

By Marcelo D S

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Oct 28, 2020

I do not recommend this course at all. Poor quality. Unnecessarily wordy and boring!

By Alvaro I F

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Aug 30, 2016

shame you have to pay for this course although the content is good

By Christina B

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Feb 14, 2023

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