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所在平台: Coursera |
课程主页: https://www.coursera.org/learn/sustainable-food-systems
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课程名称:可持续食品系统 课程概述:在本课程中,学员将通过系统思维的视角深入研究食品生产系统的复杂细节。课程将探讨食品、纤维和自然资源产业面临的重大挑战及其对人类、地球和利润的影响。通过学习,学员将清晰理解系统思维的概念,能够说明可持续发展的三个关键支柱,并将这些支柱与社会、环境和经济联系起来。 课程大纲: 1. **模块1 | 食品系统的系统性** 了解食品系统的复杂性,探讨系统思维如何影响我们的世界,讨论食品、经济、环境和能源系统中的重大挑战和新兴问题。 2. **模块2 | 食品系统的可持续性** 探索可持续发展的三个支柱及其与食品系统的关系,讨论主要挑战和新兴问题,并研究降低未来风险的最终目标。 3. **模块3 | 食品生产系统** 定义和探讨不同类型的食品生产系统,考察食品系统中的生产和加工系统,研究消费者和生产者的角色。 4. **模块4 | 食品与营养** 研究与全球饥饿、营养食品的获取及食品沙漠等相关问题,同时探讨食品与情感和文化之间的联系。 5. **模块5 | 食品与环境** 探索环境中的重大挑战,研究水质和土壤质量相关问题。 6. **模块6 | 食品系统的经济学** 考察土地获取与食品生产需求的问题,探索非生产性土地的可能用途,研究以消费者驱动的经济体对食品系统的影响。 7. **模块7 | 食品系统中的能源与科技** 探讨食品系统中能源和科技的重大挑战,考察 switchgrass 和碳在环境中的角色,研究能源和科技问题。 8. **模块8 | 检视重大挑战;向解决方案迈进** 研究食品、食品生产系统和可持续性相关的复杂性及决策,探索学员能够为可持续性和可持续食品系统的重大挑战提供的具体解决方案。 通过这门课程,学员将获得对可持续食品系统的深入理解,并提升应对相关挑战的能力。
Name:MODULE 1 | Food System as a System
Description:In this module, learners will explore the complexities of the food system, examine the ways systems thinking influences our world, and examine some of the grand challenges and emerging issues in the food, economic, environmental, and energy systems.
Name:MODULE 2 | Sustainability in the Food System
Description:In this module, learners will investigate the three pillars of sustainability and their relationship to the food system, explore major challenges and emerging issues, and examine the ultimate goal of derisking the future.
Name:MODULE 3 | Food Production Systems
Description:In this module, learners will define and explore the types of food production systems, examine the production and processing systems in the food systems, and investigate the roles of consumers and producers.
Name:MODULE 4 | Food and Nutrition
Description:In this module, learners will investigate issues related to world hunger, access to nutritious food, food deserts. Learners will also explore the emotional and cultural connections to food.
Name:MODULE 5 | Food and the Environment
Description:In this module, learners will explore environmental grand challenges and investigate issues related to water and soil quality.
Name:MODULE 6 | Economics of the Food System
Description:In this module, learners will examine issues in land access and food production demands, explore potential uses of non-productive land, and investigate the influence of a consumer-driven economy.
Name:MODULE 7 | Energy and Technology in the Food System
Description:In this module, learners will explore grand challenges in energy and technology within the food system, examine the roles of switchgrass and carbon in our environment, and investigate issues in energy and technology.
Name:MODULE 8 | Examining Grand Challenges; Moving Toward Solutions
Description:In this module, learners will examine the complexities of and decisions associated with food, food production systems, and sustainability. Learners will explore specific ways he/she/they can contribute toward solutions for grand challenges in sustainability and sustainable food systems.
Throughout this course, you will delve into the intricate details of the food production system through a system-thinking lens. You will examine the grand challenges faced by the food, fiber, and natural resource industries, and their repercussions on people, the planet, and profit. By the end of this course, you will have a clear understanding of the concept of systems thinking, be able to explain the three key pillars of sustainability and link these pillars to social, environmental, and econo