Creating sustainable futures/CSF102/Impacts assessment/Overview

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As we learnt in The Inspiring Challenge of sustainable development micro course (CSF101) Session 3 From the Holocene to the Anthropocene, the four system conditions, or sustainability principles, defined by the Natural Step in its Framework for Strategic Sustainable Development provide a robust definition of sustainability. These four principles can be used as a tool to audit a business, community or even a project to identify all the ways in which it currently contributes aspects of unsustainable practices.

This session will lead you through a process to carry out a sustainability impacts assessment using the four sustainability principles. The results of the assessment can then be used to create strategic goals to drive future decision-making.

Objectives

In this learning pathway you will:

• Identify how an organisation, project or community is currently contributing to unsustainable impacts.
• Begin to articulate the challenges that need to be addressed in strategic planning to move towards sustainable practices.