URL study guide
https://tue.osiris-student.nl/onderwijscatalogus/extern/cursus?cursuscode=0SV130&collegejaar=2025&taal=enDescription
The course Global Sustainability and Innovation deepens critical debates on sustainable development introduced in 0SV00.
The course takes a global perspective, invenstigating the (inter)dependencies and (justice) impacts that arise due to our (un)sustainable production and consumption patterns and lifestyles that are embedded in broader governance and power structures.
It also introduces innovative approaches and frameworks that aim to address sustainability challenges, such as notions of circular economy, responsible innovation and debates on sufficiency and commons.
The course positions these theoretical insights in and relates them to real -life settings.
Objectives
The aims of the course are:
Learning objectives
- to deepen and strengthen students’ knowledge about critical debates on sustainability
- to enable students to apraise approaches aiming to address global challenges
- to show the relevance of considering theoretical notions/insights for real-life practice
Learning objectives
- Appraise critical debates on sustainability and approaches aiming to tackle global sustainability challenges.
- Select relevant academic articles on a given topic.
- Illustrate the relevance and shortcomings of theoretical notions by applying them to real-life cases and settings.
- Formulate findings and recommendations for (business, NGO, governance) practice