Environment
Case studies and similar resources
Ecological Economics: Masters level module
This module is offered by the Department of Anthropology in the University of Vienna, and is taken by Masters Students of many different backgrounds from economics to medicine. It is run as an intensive one-week module. In the words of module designer Sigrid Stagle, the module presents ‘a holistic picture of what the housekeeping of the economy of the human system is and how it is embedded in the biophysical system’. More...
Geology: Environmental geology/professional practice, Level 3
When originally set up, this intensive one week module was considered quite a radical idea. Moving away from pure science and technicality, it aims to develop the 'soft skills' that students will need when working with geology in the real world; communication, team working, community consultation, sustainability; fitting the science and technicalities of Geology into 'the bigger picture' as course designer Norman Moles put it. More...
Links & further reading
- "Acting Sustainably: encouraging and crediting student engagement in sustainable development" Jenny Elliott (School of Environment) Report of project undertaken for the GEES Subject Centre. An article on the project will be published in their periodical Planet (Spring 2007)
- Experiencing Sustainable Development Jenny Elliott Report of an HE Academy funded project centred on the development, delivery and evaluation of a credited module through which students engage with an identified voluntary agency, business or community group undertaking actions in the field of sustainable development.
- GEES Subject Centre report of their initial ESD consultation and some other resources
- Human Geography (Agriculture and Rural Development) article
- Waste and Energy Research Group - presentation from the SDRG Forum 2007 by Marie Harder
- Research for the agencies: challenges for funded research into sustainable development - presentation from the SDRG Forum 2007 by Andrew Church