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About the Course

This course introduces the academic approach of Sustainability and explores how today’s human societies can endure in the face of global change, ecosystem degradation and resource limitations. The course focuses on key knowledge areas of sustainability theory and practice, including population, ecosystems, global change, energy, agriculture, water, environmental economics and policy, ethics, and cultural history. This subject is of vital importance, seeking as it does to uncover the principles of the long-term welfare of all the peoples of the planet. As sustainability is a cross-disciplinary field of study, this foundation requires intellectual breadth: as I describe it in the class text, understanding our motivations requires the humanities, measuring the challenges of sustainability requires knowledge of the sciences (both natural and social), and building solutions requires technical insight into systems (such as provided by engineering, planning, and management)....

Top reviews

KF

Dec 18, 2016

It is a well prepared course. Contents are carefully organized and plenty of concepts and examples are included and analyzed. Overall, it is a excellent course to get an overview of sustainability.

MT

Sep 23, 2020

This course helps me to learn many things about sustainability. By this course, I am more interested in sustainable developments. I expect to learn more about this provided by Dr Johnathan Tomkin.

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By Giada M

May 26, 2020

I really liked this course. It is very professional and give you a wide overview of all the issues related to sustainability

By Yasemin G

Oct 13, 2020

It was such a great course, very informative and detailed. I learned a lot and expend my perspective about sustainability.

By Jhoane M B R

May 12, 2020

This course is very recommended to all for more awareness and for the world to be on the sustainable path in the future 😊

By Clare M H

May 23, 2021

Excellent course material. Well explained lectures, challenging yet achievable. Very good introduction to Sustainability.

By Muhammad R

Jul 19, 2020

This is one of the best courses for you if you are looking for detailed and comprehensive introduction to sustainability.

By Harish J

May 4, 2020

Excellent course...really opened my eyes towards various aspects that influence environmental impact and sustainability.

By Nicole V

Jul 22, 2019

Great course. I learned a lot and am feeling more confident as I enter into my Masters in Sustainable Management program.

By dipankar m

Jan 3, 2024

Very good all round content on basics of sustainability. There are several tests and assignemts to cement the knowledge

By Yuki L

Aug 12, 2020

Very insightful and thorough course! Professor was knowledgable and clear in his teachings. Will recommend this course.

By Laura V A

Aug 7, 2020

I truly enjoyed this course. All the content is relevant and very well explained by the professor. Highly recommended.

By Nirod R

Jul 10, 2020

This is really helpful and learnt a lot during the course. highly recommended If you are interested in sustainability.

By Leseho S

Dec 23, 2015

I have learned a lot from this course. It is very informative and have strengthened my understanding of sustainability

By Antonio B G

Apr 23, 2020

Congratulations, very interesting course about a very important matter, I have learned lots of new things, thank you.

By Johanna

Oct 12, 2015

Very well documented. Excellent presentations with updated info. Fantastic expositions! Estimulates Critical Thinking

By Pubudu R

Jun 15, 2022

Gain so much knowledege about sustainability. Thanks coursera for introducing these type of courses to the students.

By Guglielmo F

Jan 14, 2021

A very good overview of the topic! The contents cover Economic, Energy Policies, and much more. Highly recommended.

By Blandine A

Feb 22, 2020

Great intro to sustainability concepts. It is really helpful to better understand current trends beyond the surface.

By Vanessa M M

Jun 8, 2020

Amazing course! Jonathan Tomkin makes his lectures easy to understand and his lessons were easy to follow through.

By Eric C

Mar 6, 2017

Great course, very insightful, we truly get the feeling we are covering all the basic concepts.

Thank you very much

By Ankita C

Aug 11, 2020

This course has changed my perspective toward online study !!!

I hope more improvment will make true for everyone.

By Josué D V D

Aug 6, 2020

A great course to start understanding all topics that refer to our world, environment, and lives are involved in.

By Czar C

Jan 23, 2017

Course design is well thought out. Definitely a good foundation course if you want to learn about sustainability.

By Viktorija M

Jun 22, 2023

The course is very interesting and eye-opening. Hopeful too. I enjoyed the course and the topics it addressed.

By Megan A C

Nov 24, 2020

It made me confident about sharing my knowledge about sustainability as it gave helpful concepts ang insights.

By Abdul R

May 30, 2020

I enjoyed this course for the best of my knowledge and this course had given me a clear insight on the subject