Creating sustainable futures/CSF101/ Outline
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- Course guide
- Interactions
- Learning Pathways
- Sustainability is entirely possible
- Understanding systems
- Overview
- Video signpost
- What are systems and systems thinking?
- Systems and unintended consequences
- Using a systems approach to foster sustainability
- Systems thinking and a unifying framework for strategic sustainability
- Applying the Five Level Framework to smaller systems
- Start - Understanding systems challenge
- Tasks - Understanding systems challenge
- Outputs - Understanding systems challenge
- From the Holocene to the Anthropocene
- Overview
- Video signpost
- How the Earth works
- The Earth is an open and closed system
- Matter changes form, but never disappears
- All materials disperse and spread out if not contained
- How the biosphere works
- Geological and geochemical cycles
- Start - Holocene to Anthropocene challenge
- Tasks - Holocene to Anthropocene challenge
- Outputs - Holocene to Anthropocene challenge
- Defining sustainability and sustainable development
- Overview
- Video signpost
- Models to define sustainability and sustainable development
- A model aligned with our reality
- How the human social system works
- Basic human needs
- Maslow - hierarchy of human needs
- Needs drive human behaviour
- Trust - the thread for weaving a good world
- Defining sustainable development and sustainability
- The Brundtland Commission definition
- The Natural Step - System conditions for sustainable human activity
- Summary - a scientific definition of success for humans
- Start - Sustainable development challenge
- Tasks - Sustainable development challenge
- Outputs - Sustainable development challenge
