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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

MT

Sep 24, 2020

This course helps me to learn many things about sustainability. By this course, I am more interested in sustainable developments. I expect to learn more about this provided by Dr Johnathan Tomkin.

DP

Mar 15, 2022

V​ery nice and informative course. Professor's explanation and information regarding sustainability is more useful and effective. I realized the importance of this course and enjoyed this study.

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By raymond j

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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 D L

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Jan 2, 2025

course and information need to be updated as this was shot in 2011

By Wisam C

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Feb 26, 2025

A lot of bugs and glitches in the quizzes and assessments as well as links to articles etc don't work. Videos are super boring and hard to watch.

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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