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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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YU

Mar 5, 2021

Fantastic course and a great lecturer. Highly recommend it. This topic should be studied by many and I encourage people to explore it. There is so much that can be learnt in this course.

JW

Nov 29, 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 Balaji G C

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Aug 24, 2020

Extremely one worthy course

By Malhar A

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Aug 7, 2020

Informative and interesting

By Jasmin P

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Jun 18, 2020

Great Course Learned a lot!

By G. S

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Jun 18, 2020

It was excellent experencie

By Leyner J G Z

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Jun 16, 2016

Muy interesante y educativo

By Nadeesha W A

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Jun 27, 2020

Really interesting content

By Viacheslav B

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May 17, 2020

Worth every dedicated hour

By Khelly S S R

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May 9, 2020

Great introductory course!

By Sergio S C

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Feb 16, 2018

muy bueno e interesante :)

By Dishant P

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Sep 8, 2020

This course was amazing!!

By Kalpana .

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Jul 20, 2020

Very informative & useful

By Aman G

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Jul 9, 2020

it was hard, but worth it

By Ilyes S

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May 7, 2020

Thank you for this course

By Asik S

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Sep 30, 2018

Insightful and enjoyable.

By Abhi U

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Oct 30, 2020

It was an awesome course

By Christian A C H

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Apr 20, 2020

Useful,

A great learning!

By Muhereza M

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Jul 19, 2024

Very informative course

By ABHIJEET A

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Sep 11, 2020

course was very helpful

By SAURAV K

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Jun 3, 2020

Very informative course

By Aulia D N

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Mar 20, 2025

Comprehensive course.

By Жугунусов Т Ж

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Dec 7, 2024

Курс очень понравился

By Francisco R

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Jan 3, 2022

Excelente información

By PROF ( S G

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Jul 18, 2020

Course PAR EXCELLENCE

By Priyanshi S

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Aug 2, 2020

best ever experience

By piyush b

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Jul 6, 2020

it was fun learning.