The Stockholm Resilience Centre (SRC) is launching an open online course together with the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN).7
The course, “Planetary Boundaries and Human Opportunities: The Quest for Safe and Just Development on a Resilient Planet” will help students explore and apply a range of emerging concepts within sustainability science. These concepts include: the Anthropocene, planetary boundaries, the social-ecological systems approach and resilience thinking. Approaches that are at the core of contemporary research and debates in the arena of global sustainability
Free, massive, open and online
The course will help participants to frame and understand the trends in human-caused global environmental change, and to assess responses that aim at addressing the consequences and impacts of these changes. Participants will be equipped with the knowledge to explore pathways for ensuring safe and just human development for present and future generations
Upon successful completion, participants will be able to demonstrate a clear understanding of key concepts in global environmental change research and their theoretical underpinning, as well as an up-to-date understanding of current debates in the global sustainability arena and emerging examples of approaches and solutions currently being developed.
Guiding the way
The main instructor for the course is Johan Rockström who is also part of the lead authorship team for the soon-to-be-published update of the Planetary Boundaries Framework. Also contributing to the course are Sarah Cornell, Garry Peterson, Carl Folke, Lisa Deutsch (also the lead course coordinator), Kevin Noone, Victor Galaz, and Thomas Elmqvist.
“Planetary Boundaries and Human Opportunities: The Quest for Safe and Just Development on a Resilient Planet” is a partnership initiative between Stockholm Resilience Centre and the Sustainable Development Solutions Network.
