https://at-ceu.studyguide.timeedit.net/modules/ENVS5320?type=COREAs frequently observed, people often come face-to-face with defining un/sustainability challenges at the community scale. Challenges that may appear abstract, remote, slow, and tolerable at the global level, turn out to be concrete, direct, immediate, and consequential when experienced in one's surroundings. Due to urbanization, communities are frontline drivers, frequent victims, but also first responders to the many current and emerging unsustainability-related impacts of global change.The course will conceptualize communities as complex adaptive socio-ecological systems that are navigating a delicate balance between uninterrupted ability to meet the needs of people, while also meeting the needs of other living components of the community ecosystem, and the need to adapt and transform in the face of unprecedented challenges to resilience and sustainability. The course covers theoretical approaches to understanding how the structure and functioning of communities contribute to their resilience. In the course we will focus on exploring urbanization, how cities interpret sustainability and resilience and how they address some of the signature challenges of globalization in their own contexts, including climate change, biodiversity and material consumption. We will also look at selected approaches and aspects of response mechanisms, including resilient management of infrastructure and digitalization in support of green transitions. At the end of the course we will zoom in on integrated approaches by deep learning about the functioning of a micro-scale community as a whole through a 2-day field trip to Gy?r?f?, an iconic ecovillage in Hungary.