Applications invited for Online Course on Exploring Sustainability in the Indian Context

Course title: Applications invited for Online Course on Exploring Sustainability in the Indian Context

Deadline: 5^th March 2019

Rapid and widespread environmental, economic and social changes have led to urgent global questions of sustainability. Concerns of sustainability in developing countries like India can be very different than that of industrialised countries. In developing countries, equity and social justice are central to addressing sustainability, along with environmental concerns.

This interdisciplinary, multi-instructor course provides an introduction to sustainability within the context of development in India. We develop an integrated perspective on sustainability along ecological and social dimensions, and use these to examine critical themes of importance to India, like population, food, and climate change. We explore how our imagination of culture, markets, state, and even of nature itself influences sustainability action. We end with examining how to take sustainability action - as individuals, communities and larger collectives, and across all scales, from the local to the global.

Who should attend?

This course is designed for those seeking an integrated and multi-disciplinary understanding of sustainability both in theory and practice. It is ideal for students curious about sustainability as well as development practitioners interested in deepening their understanding.

What you will learn

• Understand what sustainability is in an Indian context
• Appreciate different social and ecological aspects of sustainability
• Interpret real-world issues such as population, food and climate change through the lens of sustainability
• Discover how our imagination of nature, culture, markets and the state influences sustainability action
• Explore different types of action at individual, community and government levels.

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