Theme 1: Environmental Sustainability
Studies of sustainability, with a focus on environmental analyses.
- The science and technology of environmental sustainability
- Ecosystemics
- Sustainable agriculture
- Urbanization and its consequences
- Ecological footprints and ecospaces
- Atmosphere and biosphere: global warming, the ozone layer, pollution
- Energy: renewable and not
- Water: sources and uses
- Land and sea, mountain and savannah, desert and wet zones, forests and coasts: variable impacts on varied environments
- Biological diversity: its past and prospects
- Biotechnology and its critics
- Danger signs: rising sea levels, desertification, soil degradation
Keywords
- Ecosystems
- Science
- Technology
- Energy
- Water
- Land
- Sea
- Biological Diversity
Theme 2: Sustainability in Economic, Social and Cultural Context
Studies of sustainability, with a focus on socio-cultural and economic analyses.
- One, two, three, four, how many ‘bottom lines’?
- The meaning of cultural sustainability and sustainable heritage development
- Belonging and identity: their environmental, economic and social significance
- Changing patterns and cultures of consumption
- Cosmopolis: local cultures, globalization, diaspora
- Women and men, children and the elderly, families and sustainability
- Cultural dimensions of childbearing and population growth
- Cultural tourism
- Indigenous peoples: self-government, self management and cultural autonomy.
- Indigenous knowledge and traditional practices of sustainability: broadening
- the scope of valid knowledge
- The economics of environment, culture and society
- What is economic value?
- Cultural, social and environmental capital
- The economics of sustainability
- Needs, wants and demand: reconfiguring the economic equation
- Business cases: the cost and value of sustainability
- Risks and risk management: where economy meets environment, culture and society
- Free trade and fair trade
- Global flows: finance, trade, technology transfer and debt
- Sustainable aid and aid for sustainability
- The dynamics of production and consumption
- Accountability: beyond financial years and bottom lines
- Measuring performance and reporting sustainability
- Organizations and corporations: defining the stakeholders and meeting their interests
- Development, underdevelopment and sustainability
- Tourism and its impacts
- Sustainable and unsustainable transportation
- Wellbeing and quality of life: sources and strategies
- Gender and sustainability
- Poverty and its eradication
- Health in its environmental, cultural, economic and social contexts
- Population growth and its consequences
- Wastes and waste management
- Urbanization and the sustainability of human settlement
Keywords
- Culture
- Economics
- Society
Theme 3: Sustainability Policy and Practice
Addressing sustainability agendas and the practices flowing from these in government, corporate and community sectors.
- The politics of sustainability
- Global sustainability policies
- National sustainability policies and initiatives
- Sustainability in local government
- Corporate sustainability initiatives
- Community and NGO sustainability initiatives
- Measuring impacts: environmental assessment
- Bioethics
- Nature as intellectual and physical property
- Civic pluralism: multiculturalism and cultural sustainability
- Cultural and political liberalization: challenges and dangers
- The arts and creativity as a resource for sustainability
- Structures of ownership: private property, public property and the commons
- Good citizenship in fragile environments, cultures, economies, societies
- Levels of governance: interactions of sustainability initiatives at local, regional, national, and international levels
- Domains of responsibility: NGOs, corporations, persons
- The sources of sustainable innovation
- Planning for sustainability
- Capacity building in theory and practice
- Sustainability and community participation
- Managing ‘human resources’
Keywords
- Politics
- Policy
- Practices
Theme 4: Sustainability Education
On teaching and learning about human relations to the environment, and raising community awareness of sustainability.
- Environmental education in a time of ecosystemic crisis
- Teaching and learning sustainability: schools, universities, communities
- The media, public awareness and community education on sustainability
- Education sustaining language and culture
- Public knowledge: the role of the media and government
- Natural and social sciences: taking an holistic view
- Researching sustainability
- Knowledge capacities: developing sustainability science and technology locally
Keywords
- School Education
- Higher Education
- Community Education