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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 Karen L R P

May 12, 2017

Very good. I change my form of think.

By Prakash M

Mar 12, 2022

Excellent instructor and the course.

By Oleksandra S

Jan 11, 2021

Very good, but a little out of dated

By Devanshu T

Jan 2, 2021

The course was very well-structured.

By Ian A G M

Jul 13, 2020

Excellent and very necessary course.

By Adarsh C

Nov 29, 2021

One of the best courses on Coursera

By Deepak S

Sep 13, 2021

superb course with amazing contents

By Roxxanna L

Apr 20, 2021

It was very educational and fun too

By Aravind K R

Feb 16, 2021

Great course with lots of learning.

By Jos� D M N

Jun 16, 2020

im the master of the sustainability

By paulina c

Nov 1, 2015

I can tell, this course is a MUST!!

By Vaishakh

Apr 7, 2023

Great One and value added learning

By AGBENYA E

Aug 26, 2020

I learnt a lot through this course

By ABDEL H

Jul 24, 2020

one of the best course in Coursera

By Abhishek S

May 29, 2020

I am glad I completed it so quick!

By Ma T T

May 19, 2020

I had enjoyed it very much. Thanks

By Tonmoy C

May 12, 2020

Fantastic Course i have ever done.

By Vikas K T

Jun 2, 2020

Very good and knowledgable course

By MANRAJ M 1

May 24, 2020

The Course was really interesting

By 2K20-ME-200 P S

May 22, 2023

Course helped me a lot to learn.

By Shiva N

Jun 21, 2022

General Knowledge of Environment

By Luke J

Mar 30, 2022

this course was very informative

By juanaramburu

Jul 26, 2020

excellent and Interesting course

By S.M.Sakib H

Jun 14, 2020

It’s a great experiences for me

By Brenda L F V

Sep 18, 2016

I like hear this kind of topics