2 week course - Introduction to Strategic Sustainable Development
- 1. Introduction to Strategic Sustainable Development prepare your organization for the future Course Overview: BTH’s education for The results of unsustainable human development are sustainable development evident worldwide - climate change, species extinction, was recently acclaimed in a 2009 ranking pollution, poverty, and inequality are deteriorating our completed by the EESD capacity to sustain our ways of life. Our society needs Observatory. more effective ways of using our skills and resources to Come join our create positive change. award-winning courses on sustainability! The purpose of this course to consider these sustainability At a Glance: challenges using a whole-systems view, and suggests that a transdisciplinary approach is needed to deal with the • Small class sizes sustainability challenge of meeting our society's needs • Two week course duration today and into the future. The course is delivered in a non- • Flexible delivery traditional educational setting with experiential and locations holistic learning methods, to enable hands-on learning. If you are interested to help take action towards sustainability with your organization, this course is for you!
- 2. Specific learning objectives: “The question of By the end of the course, the learner will be able to: reaching sustainability • Understand the relevance and power of whole-systems is not about if we will thinking related to our current sustainbility challenges; have enough energy, enough food, or enough • Understand and apply a framework for strategic other tangible resources sustainable development (FSSD), a method for - those we have. The planning and decision-making; question is: will there be enough leaders in time?” • Create a full sustainability analysis and a compelling - Dr. Göran Broman and business case for the learner’s organization; and Dr. Karl-Henrik Robèrt • Share ideas and discuss common aspects related to leadership for sustainability. For further information, including course applications, please contact us: Ihsan Zakri International Project Coordinator Office for Contract Training and Projects Blekinge Institute of Technology EXR, Campus Gräsvik, 371 79 Karlskrona, SWEDEN Mobile: +46 709 40 89 87 Direct: +46 455 38 52 41 Fax: + 46 455 38 52 07 Ihsan.Zakri@bth.se www.bth.se/contracttraining