• 12c. Learning Sustainable Development – A Guide for Learners

    Lesson 12c Learning Sustainable Development – A Guide for Learners The students who want to learn about sustainable development are both those registering for courses (this one, for example) and those who…

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    12b. Teaching Sustainable Development – A Guide for Teachers

    Lesson 12B Teaching sustainable development – A guide for teachers For the teachers important questions are how the topics of sustainable development may be included in the curriculum, which aspects of SD…

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    12a. The Politics of ESD

    Lesson 12A The politics of ESD Education for Sustainable Development, ESD, has since the 1990s become a concept both in the world of education and the world of politics. Education has been…

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  • Prof. Lars Rydén lecturing sustainable development during a BUP Student Conference in Rogów, Poland. Photo: Pontus Ambros.

    Lesson 11C Managing change Is it possible to stimulate, help and even manage the process of change to a more sustainable society? In this sub session we will examine the methods, which…

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    11b. Social Change and Transitions of Societies

    Lesson 11b Social change and transitions of societies Sustainable development requires social change, even a transition to a new society, a grand vision. What do we know about social change? How does…

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    11a. The Processes of Individual Change

    Lesson 11a The processes of individual change Sustainable development will not be reached unless we change, as individuals, organizations, authorities, and societies. In this session we will study and attempt to describe…

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    10c. Tools for Approaching a Sustainable Economy

    Lesson 10c Tools for approaching a sustainable economy How can we turn the growth-economy so that it does not cause resource destruction and environmental damage, but still contributes to the welfare of…

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    10b. The Dilemma of Economic Growth

    Lesson 10b The dilemma of economic growth We live in a society in which economic growth has become a mantra for all policymakers and business people. Even if the overwhelming focus on…

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    10a. Economy and Ecology – A Single System

    Lesson 10a Economy and ecology – a single system Economy is regularly defined as one of the (three) pillars, or dimensions, of sustainable development – Environmental, Social and Economic – all of…

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    9c. Making and Implementing Sustainable Development Politics

    Lesson 9c Making and implementing sustainable development politics Social problems do not appear on the political agenda until they are perceived as social problems by the policymakers. Actors who want changes in…

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