Course Description

Course Name

Sustainability and Environment

Session: VCPS3118

Hours & Credits

36 Host University Units

Prerequisites & Language Level

Course entry requirements: EGS2013F, EGS2014S

Taught In English

  • There is no language prerequisite for courses at this language level.

Overview

Course outline:
The course critically engages with current debates and discourses in the fields of sustainability, vulnerability and environmental management, including examination of key concepts such as integration, systems-thinking, complexity, equity, vulnerability, risk, resilience, adaptation and mitigation. Approaches and methods for analysing environmental problems and integrating risk reduction as well as sustainability principles and practices into policy, programme, plan and project cycle processes are investigated and applied in different contexts.

*Course content subject to change