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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)....

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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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By Sujith V

Aug 6, 2019

It was personally an eye-opener towards sustainability for me in so many ways. Thank you.

By Cédric B

Oct 4, 2015

Great material, very interesting courses, I would highly recommend this course to anyone!

By Shahlo K

Apr 10, 2021

It was one of the most insightful and well-organized courses I took. Highly recommended.

By Kesmat E D

May 6, 2020

Very insightful! I enjoyed every moment of this course and I would totally recommend it.

By Hamed V

Feb 24, 2016

It was great! Especially, Prof, Tompkin is conveying the fact in a very tangible manner.

By Jodi D

Jul 28, 2024

A very comprehensive approach to learning basic knowledge to understand sustainability!

By Akash k

Jun 21, 2020

It was an amazing course, easy to understand and follow with course.

very much satisfied

By Sean S

May 3, 2022

Good Course. informative material and well delivered. Worth the effort of completition

By Ava C

Jan 16, 2021

Good to provide an overview of the issue, with a variety of information for reference.

By Abdullah A

Jan 1, 2017

Highly recommended for who wants to know multidisciplinary linkages of sustainability.

By Sumit K M

May 11, 2020

Really a nice course. Instructor is very nice and easily explains difficult concepts.

By Alejandro S M

Aug 13, 2016

Great course, very interesting and explained in a very friendly and easy way. Thanks!

By Kamal H

Jul 3, 2019

I liked this course especially the way how they teach key points, Thank you Coursera

By Ye P O

Sep 15, 2020

Very much helpful to those who want to start learning about Sustainability concept.

By Jenny B

Jan 5, 2020

Answered a lot of my questions and taught me about how life works. Really loved it.

By Miguel R

Jan 17, 2017

A very interesting and complete MOOC regarding Sustainability, should be mandatory!

By Ivan C R S

Jul 25, 2020

It´s a great course, I learned a lot about how and why take care of my environment

By Muhammad M A E M A E S

May 2, 2020

It is a great course though I think it would need to be revisited for 2020 updates

By Carlos R E

Jul 19, 2021

Around pessimist people about the future? Let's be real for a moment and consider

By Shahed M

May 30, 2020

Sad, the course end too fast, enjoyed the journy throughout the course very much.

By Yogi H C

Jan 26, 2021

Great course! Literally change my perspective about world sustainability issues.

By Kilian G

May 23, 2020

Its just an introduction and not to deep into the topics. Very well illustrated!

By Gonzalo G G

Mar 13, 2016

Great content! Very interesting course and well explained and organized. thanks!

By Matt N

Jan 4, 2021

A solid introduction into Sustainability and the Environment, very informative

By Roberto G B

Oct 30, 2017

very broad, but focus on important subjects as sustainability is a vast theme