Global and Regional Sustainability

• • Global and regional sustainability: introduction and overview;
  • Population, demographic transition and sustainable lifestyles
  • Food and agriculture
  • Climate change, cities and energy
  • Biodiversity and ecosystem services
  • Water
  • Ecological restoration
  • Participation in sustainability
  • Global governance for sustainability
  • Civil Society
  • Economic systems and sustainability
  • Hope for the future

Equivalent subjects

You should not enrol in this subject if you have successfully completed any of the following subject(s) because they are considered academically equivalent:

• MUR-SUS212 (Not currently available)

Others

Students must have completed 18 credit points (6 OUA subjects) at Level 1 before enrolling in this subject.

Additional requirements

No additional requirements

This subject was previously known as SUS212 Global & Regional Sustainability.

This subject enables students to apply their understanding of sustainability and their knowledge of environmental systems to different scales ranging from regional to global. Students will develop competence to unpack the threats to sustainability and their underlying drivers. They will explore strategies to address them which incorporate technical, governance, economic and social approaches.

Please Note: All students studying at Murdoch University will need to complete the compulsory unit, Murdoch Academic Passport (MAP100), which only takes 2-3 hours to complete online. Find out more: http://goto.murdoch.edu.au/MurdochAcademicPassport.

All assessment work goes beyond mere comprehension and reproduction of unit content. Students are required to critically engage with the unit content, challenging assumptions and ways of thinking, especially when examining current affairs and contemporary sustainability concerns. Tutorial facilitation serves the purpose of exploring the wide spectrum of views held on particular sustainability topics. The written assignment and the creative piece ask students to develop a robust theoretical grounding and to translate and apply theory using a medium other than academic writing.

• Sustainability Project: Wicked Problems - Wiki/Blog (40%)
• Engagement/Participation (10%)
• Creative Artifact (20%)
• Timed online exam (30%)

Current study term: 27 Nov 22 to 26 Feb 23

Next study term: 26 Nov 23 to 25 Feb 24