

University of Copenhagen - Sustainable Development - Ideas and Imaginaries
- Offered byCoursera
- Public/Government Institute
Sustainable Development - Ideas and Imaginaries at Coursera Overview
Duration | 16 hours |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Official Website | Explore Free Course |
Credential | Certificate |
Sustainable Development - Ideas and Imaginaries at Coursera Highlights
- Earn a Certificate upon completion
Sustainable Development - Ideas and Imaginaries at Coursera Course details
- This course will contribute to doing so by focusing on the historical roots and multiple layers of meaning of sustainable development, and by exploring questions such as: ?What is the historical background of the current Sustainable Development Goals??, ?Which imaginaries about relations between individual and collective tend to promote and prevent sustainable solutions??, ?How can ideas about humans and nature affect global development??, And ?how do we as humans react on inconstant notions of time and change?
- We hope that you will join us in the course and qualify your participation in current discussions about how to achieve common sustainable development in a divided world
Sustainable Development - Ideas and Imaginaries at Coursera Curriculum
The conceptual history of sustainability and sustainable development
The ideas behind sustainable development
Ideas and imaginaries of 'sustainable development'
The double meaning of 'sustainable development'
Mandatory reading
Ideas and imaginaries of sustainable development
Ideas about individuals and society
Ideas about individuals and society
The economy
Mandatory reading
Ideas about individuals and society
Ideas about relations between humans and nature
Ideas about relations between humans and nature
Small is beautiful
Mandatory reading
Ideas about relations between humans and nature
Ideas about time and change
Ideas about time and change
Interdependence
Course conclusion
Mandatory reading
Ideas about time and change