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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 Maxime

Mar 19, 2021

Ver very interesting I learn't a lot that I can apply in my professional and private life.

Thanks you,

Max

By Anurag V

Oct 28, 2020

excellent course, I advise everyone must go for it.

you will get precious knowledge after completing this

By Iktiar A T

Jul 16, 2020

This is the most toughest one I have ever enrolled. Though, I didn't give up. Even, it seems fun to me.

By Kamlesh P

Jun 2, 2020

I learned a great about sustainability. It gave me new horizontals and verticals to think in this area.

By Gontran S

Apr 30, 2022

Very interesting course! It was a good introduction to many different topics linked to sustainability!

By Km S

Jun 5, 2020

Teaching Of Professor Tomkin was much familiar and interesting. I enjoyed learning this course a lot.

By PUSHPENDRA S

Jun 1, 2020

Good course. I recommend this to all who wants to learn and improve their knowledge on sustainability.

By Dulat Y

May 18, 2020

One of the most interesting and useful course I have taken in my life! Professor Tompkins is the best!

By RK S

Sep 23, 2019

One of the best designed course in Coursera, gives you thorough knowledge of the Environmental Issues.

By Cristobal L c

Jun 23, 2020

me gusto mucho el curso, 100% recomendado, a cualquiera que este interesado en este tema le encantara

By Ashutosh P V

Jun 3, 2020

It was one great eye-opener. I wish to get a job with this. Thank you so much for your guidance John.

By Sergio A M A

May 23, 2020

Excelente curso, muy interesantes los temas y sobre todo muy actuales, excelente material de consulta

By Valerie G

Aug 18, 2019

Very interesting and complete, with a great mix of theory and real-life examples. Highly recommended!

By Pedro H D T A S

May 17, 2017

Everybody should do this course! Amazing how things are well explained and detailed! I am fascinated!

By Ainun H

Jul 26, 2024

Nice start to understand more about sustainability in the challenging era of climate crisis. Thanks!

By Micaela S T Q

May 19, 2020

I am very grateful to Professor dr. Tomkin for his clarity, impartiality and transmitted knowledge.

By SURENDRA L

Apr 22, 2017

This is a great course, provides overall view of our life's with and without sustainable practices.

By Marcelo B

Jan 27, 2016

Muito bem estruturado, professor com didática, conteúdo muito bem embasado com dados globais reais.

By Safi A Y

May 28, 2020

Very much effective course .....I found a lot of statistics.It enrich my knowledge one step up....

By Chinmaya D

Nov 23, 2022

Changed perspective for many things, got to know new things. Respect to Faculty and all involved.

By CESAR A V M

May 17, 2022

This course is awesome, all the people around the world must to have a baseline in sustainability

By Eeva L

Jun 22, 2021

The course gives great foundation and all the needed vocabulary to discuss sustainability issues.

By Carolyn L

Jun 16, 2020

Informative class touching on a wide array of topics. This instructor (and school) is also great.

By Shannon S

Nov 17, 2019

Very informative and well-organized lectures and readings. An excellent course. Highly recommend.

By lalit j

Jul 2, 2018

The way course content was set and the way it was explained was very good and easy to understand.