Sustainable futures/Story board

The aim of the course is to provide the background as to how and why human activity is currently unsustainable and to establish the importance of systems thinking and defining success in a chosen system.

Creating Sustainable Futures
At the successful completion of this course students will be able to:
 * 1) Describe the ecological processes that support life systems and human impacts on these
 * 2) Analyse and discuss patterns of human civilization and investigate some of the factors that contributed to their success or decline.
 * 3) Discuss the relationship between human activity and nature.
 * 4) Investigate the tipping point issues that have influenced thinking about sustainability.
 * 5) Analyse trends, issues and opportunities that will influence future activity and generations on this planet.