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Thematic Area Natural & Societal Sustainability
... to address current and future sustainability challenges related to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
In the EPICUR thematic area Natural and Societal Sustainability, students gain the ability to critically reflect and engage in current and future sustainability challenges related to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as put forward by the United Nations in 2015. Courses target interdisciplinary knowledge and competencies, focusing on interdependencies between societal, economic, environmental, and cultural drivers of sustainability challenges and resulting conflicts of goals and interests.
These courses help equip students for the sustainability challenges humanity will face in the 21st century, challenges that cannot be overcome with disciplinary thinking and a national perspective.
These courses help equip students for the sustainability challenges humanity will face in the 21st century, challenges that cannot be overcome with disciplinary thinking and a national perspective.
Focus:
The pilot theme in Natural and Societal Sustainability (NatSocSus) focuses on:
- the interdependent economic, environmental, and cultural drivers of sustainability challenges as well as resulting conflicts of goals and interests
- fostering students’ ability to engage with real-life complexities from the local to the global level
- investigating the complex and dynamic interactions between natural and human systems and how these can be transformed in a sustainable way based on a long-term perspective
- developing students’ ability to reflect and engage in current sustainability challenges related to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as put forward by the United Nations in 2015. The modules/ themes of this study track are closely tied to the SDGs to encourage changes in knowledge, skills, values, and attitudes to enable a more sustainable and just society for all.
Challenge areas:
The pilot theme Natural and Societal Sustainability comprises four challenge areas that are interdisciplinary in themselves:
- Sustainable innovations and social justice
- Transformative cities
- Sustainable resource management
- Education and Communication for Sustainable Development
Last edited: 26. Oct 2022, 10:57, [sr1149@uni-freiburg.de]