https://at-ceu.studyguide.timeedit.net/modules/ENVS5093?type=COREThe course will provide an overview of the concept of sustainable development, including a review of its underlying rationale, theory, evolution, use in various current policy contexts and its critique. Perspectives from sustainability science will be introduced and critically reviewed. We will consider sustainable development as a problem of transition in complex socio-ecological systems mainly through the lens of governance and policy. You will get acquainted in detail with tools and mechanisms, such as sustainability indicators, assessments, and scenarios. You will explore how these could be used to inform the articulation of goals and visions and the construction of adaptive transition pathways, with an explicit link to the sustainable development goals (SDGs) and related implementation mechanisms. Throughout the course conceptual points will be illustrated with practical examples at various - ecosystem, community, corporate, national, or international - scales and in different sectors. The course will combine lectures with various interactive elements, including small group work and a simulation game (The World's Future) focused on navigating SDG implementation in hypothetical country settings. An individual course assignment will focus on critically reviewing implementation strategies related to a specific SDG in a country of your choice, including presenting and discussing it in a panel setting.Module: Introductory Environmental TopicsCourse type: Mandatory elective for MESP and MESPOM