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课程概述

We’re excited you’re here! This course, “Beyond the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Addressing Sustainability and Development,” is the first course in the Sustainability and Development MasterTrack® Certificate, but you can also take this course as a stand-alone learning opportunity. Sustainability and development pose unprecedented challenges as human societies grow and seek to ensure future wellbeing and prosperity. In this course, we’ll focus on addressing the twin challenges of sustainability and development with actionable knowledge for innovating solutions to the world’s most pressing problems like climate change, poverty and inequality, and biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation. Rather than sustainability being a qualifier for development (e.g. sustainable development), we conceptualize Sustainability and Development as co-equal fields of inquiry and action that seek to build bridges between the natural, social and applied sciences and the humanities. When sustainability and development are placed on an equal footing, it requires us to think more explicitly about the trade-offs, co-benefits and synergies between them, which we will be exploring in depth in each week. Throughout the course, you will be introduced to the theoretical currents in Sustainability and Development, and will garner an in-depth understanding of the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We will also consider the methods and skills necessary for designing innovative solutions to sustainability and development problems through the emerging field of Sustainability Science. In this course, we will explore three of the most pressing challenges undergirding the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) including climate change, poverty and inequality, and ecosystem degradation and biodiversity loss, with case studies to guide and challenge our thinking. In the final week of the course, we will discuss the trade-offs, co-benefits and synergies between these challenges, especially as they relate to designing innovative solutions for achieving our sustainability and development goals. By the end of this course, you will be able to: 1. Understand and explain the world’s most pressing problems with a specific focus on poverty & inequality, ecosystem degradation and biodiversity loss, and climate change. 2. Critically analyze the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and their relationship to the world’s most pressing problems. 3. Use frameworks and evidence necessary to develop solutions. 4. Assess relevant solutions that would help realize the SDGs and at the same time solve the pressing problems. 5. Apply skills learned to implement solutions....

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BW

Oct 20, 2020

Very informative high level overview course that goes deep enough into key topics to make the theory quite practical.

RH

Jul 15, 2020

Excellent course for everybody!! You can gain great knowledge about SDGs and modern day world's real problems and how to face them globally. Cheers!!!!

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51 - Beyond the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Addressing Sustainability and Development 的 75 个评论(共 141 个)

创建者 Simona M T

Jul 8, 2020

It is a very useful course for those interested in understanding what Sustainability means.

创建者 Gabriela C

Aug 19, 2020

A clear overview of the current knowledge of sustainability science and how it is applied.

创建者 Anand S

Oct 9, 2020

very informative course on interdependence of different programs in achieving SDGs

创建者 Jesus V S

Sep 30, 2022

Estuvo muy interesantes los materiales que estuvo a mi disposicion con el curso.

创建者 So C K

Jul 19, 2020

The course is very useful to me, I learn concepts of SDGs ,esp Goal 1,5,10,14,15

创建者 Raskendra B

Nov 3, 2022

the best ever course i have done on online platform, thanks to the teachers.

创建者 Ratin R

Jul 24, 2020

That course was really effective for me as a student of Development Studies

创建者 SAIRA I

May 5, 2020

A valuable coarse content regarding the sustainable development goals.

创建者 Gianella J Z H

May 7, 2023

Buen curso para aprender acerca del medio ambiente y como cuidarlo.

创建者 Pulugu M R

Aug 30, 2020

It is really helpful for me as it helped me to understand better

创建者 Janhavi R B

May 19, 2025

A very good course, focusing mainly on sustainable knowlegde

创建者 Gabriel A

Jun 28, 2020

Very informative and flexible to accommodate my schedule.

创建者 Marcus

Nov 29, 2021

A good introduction to sustainable development thought

创建者 RODRIGO E P M

Aug 2, 2020

A perfect course to start in this world of knowledge.

创建者 Ivy J N

Dec 5, 2020

Very interesting! Can make you change your mind set

创建者 NAGLAA A M A

May 13, 2023

It was so easy and so useful to my understanding

创建者 Harshit H

Sep 20, 2022

Got to know about Sustainable Development.

创建者 Emre Y

Dec 17, 2020

Thanks. It is perfect course for everyone

创建者 Chukwudi A

Dec 7, 2021

Quite impressive and highly educational

创建者 Bernadette A

Aug 30, 2020

This course was very enjoyable to learn.

创建者 Susana H

Mar 2, 2022

Extremely important tools for anyone

创建者 Md. M I

Jul 4, 2020

That's an amazing course I have done

创建者 GRECIA M R A

Oct 10, 2022

I love this course, thank you!

创建者 Md E

Sep 28, 2022

this course was very helpfull

创建者 Parul C

Jun 28, 2021

Excellent course for Beginners