Roadmap

We have now spent most of our time getting a grip of the problem, from planetary boundaries to our disconnection from the biosphere. We will now start taking aim at the goal. The concept of sustainability captures this in a general way, but in this module of the course we will get into the details of what to sustain, how to find indices that can guide actions and how to agree on which indices to use. This section focuses mostly on the big picture view of sustainability from a national governance perspective. This involves understanding the interactions between the components that provide well-being, and the effect of human actions on these components. In later modules we will look at more bottom up approaches to achieve the same goals. We will end this module by taking a look at the debate about how to value the future; something that is largely a controversial issue for national and international governance.