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所在平台: Coursera |
课程主页: https://www.coursera.org/learn/sustainability
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课程名称：可持续性导论 课程概述：本课程介绍了可持续性学术研究的方法，探讨了当今人类社会如何在全球变化、生态系统退化和资源限制面前持久生存。课程重点关注可持续性理论和实践中的关键知识领域，包括人口、生态系统、全球变化、能源、农业、水资源、环境经济学与政策、伦理和文化历史。可持续性是一个跨学科的研究领域，理解人类的动机需要人文学科的视角，衡量可持续性挑战需要自然科学和社会科学的知识，而建立解决方案则需要掌握技术系统的见解。 课程大纲： 1. 课程介绍与导向：熟悉课程内容、同学和学习环境，并获得必要的技术技能，探讨地球作为一个系统的核心思想及其对环境可持续性的影响。 2. 人口：探讨人类人口的演变及未来一个世纪可能的变化。 3. 生态系统与气候变化：分析人类对自然资源的开发造成的环境压力，以及气候变化的问题。 4. 能源：考察能源使用现状及其对地球的影响，并讨论如何向更可持续的使用模式过渡。 5. 水与农业：探讨水资源与食品之间的联系，以及未来一个世纪中满足全球粮食需求的必要条件。 6. 环境政策：研究政策制定者常用的工具及影响政策形成的各种力量。 7. 测量可持续性：分析可用于测量可持续性的工具，并根据课程中讨论的模型和趋势，对21世纪的全球可持续性进行预测。 8. 课程总结：通过一场综合测验回顾前七个模块的所有主题，测试对课程目标、关键概念和引导问题的掌握情况。 本课程旨在揭示维持地球上所有人类长期福祉的原则，适合各学科背景的学习者。
Name:Orientation and Introduction
Description:In this module, you will become familiar with the course, your classmates, and the learning environment. The orientation also helps you obtain the technical skills required for the course. In the introduction, we will examine some of the central ideas that underpin the Earth as a system, and their consequences for environmental sustainability.
Name:Population
Description:In this module, we will see how human populations have evolved over time and get a sense of where the next century of change will take us.
Name:Ecosystems and Climate Change
Description:In this module, we will see that the Earth faces many environmental pressures that result from human exploitation of natural resources. We will also look at the issue of climate change.
Name:Energy
Description:In this module, we will look at energy use. We will also consider what the trend of energy use means for the planet, and how we might transition to a more sustainable pattern of use.
Name:Water and Agriculture
Description:In this module, we will explore the connection between water and food, and see what will be required to feed the planet over the course of the century.
Name:Environmental Policy
Description:In this module, we will examine some of the common tools used by policy-makers, and some of the forces that shape (or misshape) policy.
Name:Measuring Sustainability
Description:In this module, we will examine what tools are available to measure sustainability. Finally, I will make some predictions on global sustainability for the 21st century, based on the models we have spoken about in this course and the trends that have been observed in the early part of this century.
Name:Conclusion
Description:Welcome to the end of the course! This module has a final, comprehensive quiz that covers all of the topics that we’ve seen in the previous seven modules. You’ll want to be familiar with the goals and objectives, key phrases, concepts, and guiding questions from the earlier modules to do well on this final quiz.
This course introduces the academic approach of Sustainability and explores how today’s human societies can endure in the face of global change, ecosystem degradation and resource limitations. The course focuses on key knowledge areas of sustainability theory and practice, including population, ecosystems, global change, energy, agriculture, water, environmental economics and policy, ethics, and cultural history. This subject is of vital importance, seeking as it does to uncover the principles of the long-term welfare of all the peoples of the planet. As sustainability is a cross-disciplinary field of study, this foundation requires intellectual breadth: as I describe it in the class text, understanding our motivations requires the humanities, measuring the challenges of sustainability requires knowledge of the sciences (both natural and social), and building solutions requires technical insight into systems (such as provided by engineering, planning, and management).
