Creating sustainable futures/BAM610/ Outline
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- Creating sustainable futures
- About
- Course feed
- Section 1
- 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
- Section 2
- Understanding the challenge
- Identifying trends and drivers of change
- Baseline assets and platforms
- Overview
- Video signpost
- Setting a baseline - current sustainability assets
- Setting a baseline - organisational environmental management systems
- Sustainable product certification and standards
- Prioritising identified sustainability impacts
- Start - Baseline challenge
- Tasks - Baseline challenge
- Outputs - Baseline challenge
- Sustainability impacts assessment
- Evaluating important relationships
- Section 3
- Developing a strong vision
- Backcasting from sustainability principles
- Framing the right strategic goals
- Overview
- Video signpost
- Strategic goals that give life to an aspirational vision
- Addressing key sustainability challenges and opportunities
- Strategic frameworks for sustainability
- The Future Fit Business Benchmark
- Planetary Boundaries framework
- One Planet Living
- Forum for the Future’s Five Capitals model
- Start - Framing challenge
- Tasks - Framing challenge
- Outputs - Framing challenge
- Section 4
- Inspiring creative solutions
- Prioritising actions
- Communicating for success
- Choosing the right support tools
