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2017-2018 UMass Dartmouth Graduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

SUS 500 - Sustainable Development Theory and Practice

Credits 3
Lecture / 3 hours per week
Fundamentals of Sustainable Development. Areas of investigation include study and application of knowledge about how individuals, and/or institutions, direct the course of an organization or community in ways that restore and enhance human, natural, manufactured, and financial capital to generate stakeholder value and contribute to the well-being of current and future generations. Students in this course will review the concept of Sustainable Development, Climate Change, and Environmental challenges, systems Thinking/Systems Analysis, “Natural” Systems and Function, Human Interactions with Natural Systems, Ethics, and Values.
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