ENV 250 - Frameworks of Sustainability

2 credit(s)
Focuses on the theories, principles, and conceptual applications of sustainability, with emphases on the importance of context, justice, and transdisciplinary thinking. Students will be exposed to the tensions over how to operationalize sustainability, and will examine how many of today’s most pressing sustainability issues are wicked. Wicked problem frames understand sustainability issues as having a multiplicity of stakeholders, no one size fits all solution (rather, good, better, or best), influenced by a constellation of complex sociopolitical factors, and context dependent. As a class, we will engage with the questions, What is sustainable? For whom is a policy or practice sustainable? Why is sustainability valuable? How do we implement sustainable practices?
Core Requirement(s): Sustainability