Here is a wonderful MOOC to dabble with .
It is jointly offered by Stockholm Resilience Centre and Sustainable Development Solution Network.
This course is tailor made for people who are interested in joining the Global conversation on Sustainability and to contribute to the discussion with conceptual clarity .
This course aims at expanding and updating participant’s ‘conceptual toolbox’ in matters of global sustainability.
The course duration is 8 weeks and it covers topics like the Anthropocene, planetary boundaries, the social-ecological systems approach and resilience thinking. Such concepts are at the core of contemporary research and debates in the arena of global sustainability.
The best part of this MOOC is the chance it offers to closely watch the thought process of the great minds in this field like Johan Rockström who is the lead Instructor of this course . He is the Professor in Environmental Science with emphasis on water resources and global sustainability at Stockholm University and the Executive Director of Stockholm Resilience Centre. He is an internationally recognized scientist on global sustainability issues.
In addition to him , there are other Instructors who has a great body of work which shows the depth of research that has been performed by them and also reflects the intellectual clarity that we can receive through this MOOC .
In addition to him , there are other Instructors who has a great body of work which shows the depth of research that has been performed by them and also reflects the intellectual clarity that we can receive through this MOOC .
Sounds Interesting ?
Then click https://www.sdsnedu.org/learn/planetary-boundaries-and-human-opportunities-fall-2014 to decide whether you want to be a bystander in the discussions on Sustainability which is cropping up in every domain or be an informed individual who can talk sane with conceptual clarity .
Here is the Introduction to the MOOC .
Looking forward to see you there .