Course: Sustainability credits: 1
- Course code
- ELVH16ASUS
- Name
- Sustainability
- Study year
- 2022-2023
- ECTS credits
- 1
- Language
- English
- Coordinator
- R. Veenstra
- Modes of delivery
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- Assignment
- Assessments
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- Sustainability - Assignment
Learning outcomes
- Each student will be able to define sustainability
- Each student will be able to explain how sustainability relates to their lives and their values, and how their actions impact issues of sustainability.
- Each student will be able to utilize their knowledge of sustainability to change their daily habits and consumer mentality.
- Each student will be able to explain how systems are interrelated.
- Each student will learn change agent skills.
- Each student will learn how to apply concepts of sustainability to their campus and community by engaging in the challenges and solutions of sustainability on their campus.
- Each student will learn how to apply concepts of sustainability globally by engaging in the challenges and the solutions of sustainability in a world context.
Content
The UN Bruntland commission states: “sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” In the charter for the UCLA Sustainability Committee, sustainability is defined as: “the physical development and institutional operating practices that meet the needs of present users without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs, particularly with regard to use and waste of natural resources. Sustainable practices support ecological, human, and economic health and vitality. Sustainability presumes that resources are finite, and should be used conservatively and wisely with a view to long-term priorities and consequences of the ways in which resources are used.”
In these lectures you will be given the challenge to learn about a number of tools for considering sustainability in your design.
In these lectures you will be given the challenge to learn about a number of tools for considering sustainability in your design.
Included in programme(s)
School(s)
- Institute of Engineering