Geography
Environmental Sustainability
Module code: F8520E
Level 4
15 credits in autumn semester
Teaching method: Lecture
Assessment modes: Portfolio
How can we, together, create a fair and sustainable world?
On this module, you’ll look at complex sustainability challenges and their interactions. You’ll explore pressing global issues, such as:
- climate change
- loss of nature
- pressure on resources
- questions of fairness and justice, how global problems are felt in local places, and how our actions can make a difference.
Drawing on Sussex University’s radical history of thinking across subjects, you’ll explore how we create progressive change. You’ll also engage with the social, political, cultural and ethical issues involved in making decisions about the future.
By the end of the module, you’ll have a clearer sense of how sustainability issues connect with one another, and how you might contribute to building fairer and more resilient futures.
Module learning outcomes
- Identify key concepts, debates and perspectives that shape current understandings of environmental sustainability.
- Apply interdisciplinary ideas to explore how sustainability challenges emerge and how different approaches attempt to address them.
- Evaluate sustainability-focused actions, initiatives or policies, considering their potential benefits, limitations and social implications.
- Reflect on your own position in relation to sustainability and consider how individuals and communities can contribute to more equitable and resilient futures.