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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.

JW

Nov 28, 2015

This was my first Coursera course, and I wasn't sure what to expect; but was very pleased with the organization, timescale things were run on, and overall neutrality of the course. Very well done!

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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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Nov 13, 2024

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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