BAM610

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  • Creating sustainable futures
  • About
    • About BAM610
    • Navigating the course site
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    • Site map
  • Course feed
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  • Section 1
    • Sustainability is entirely possible
    • Understanding systems
    • From the Holocene to the Anthropocene
    • Defining sustainability and sustainable development
  • Section 2
    • Understanding the challenge
    • Identifying trends and drivers of change
    • Baseline assets and platforms
    • Sustainability impacts assessment
    • Evaluating important relationships
  • Section 3
    • Developing a strong vision
    • Backcasting from sustainability principles
    • Framing the right strategic goals
  • Section 4
    • Inspiring creative solutions
    • Prioritising actions
    • Communicating for success
    • Choosing the right support tools

Defining sustainability and sustainable development

1. Overview
2. Video signpost
3. Models to define sustainability and sustainable development
4. A model aligned with our reality
5. How the human social system works
6. Basic human needs
7. Maslow – hierarchy of human needs
8. Needs drive human behaviour
9. Trust – the thread for weaving a good world
10. Defining sustainable development and sustainability
11. The Brundtland Commission definition
12. The Natural Step – System conditions for sustainable human activity
13. Summary – a scientific definition of success for humans
14. Start – Sustainable development challenge
15. Tasks – Sustainable development challenge
16. Outputs – Sustainable development challenge

Outputs – Sustainable development challenge

activity

Learning outcome actions

  1. Write up your answers, to the questions on the previous page, in your learning journal.

If you are a student seeking formal credit you should now go to the course assignment page and complete and other assignment requirements. This page has details of how to submit your assignment.

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