Maria Malmström
Water and Environmental Engineering group at KTH, Royal Institute of Technology
Enforcing Sustainable Development KTHx
Become a problem solver who knows how to enforce sustainable development
About This Course
What can we do to address the sustainability challenges we face? In this course, you will gain insight into how individuals,organisations and societies approach sustainability challenges in different ways. In various parts of the world different challenges are prioritized and thereby, various approaches and solutions are needed.
You will learn about the considerations needed to make decisions of how to prioritize sustainable development. You will also be introduced to different strategies for changing values, attitudes and behaviours. The course introduces enforcements that are applied to influence individuals within companies and in the society at large, including different incentives and instruments to ensure more sustainable behaviours.
This course is relevant to professionals working in industry, policymakers, or students in engineering.
What you'll learn
- Identify and prioritize solutions based on different perspectives
- About how the values, attitudes and behaviours for sustainable development are connected
- About different environmental management tools
- How to implement organizational learning, incentives and instruments to change behaviours for sustainable development
- Concepts used in the current sustainability debate
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