Society and Sustainability: About sustainability

Learn about sustainability challenges from political, cultural, historical and international development perspectives.

These modules explore governance structures, economic systems and political processes of the environmental, social and economic aspects of sustainability.

What are the economic and institutional routes and processes for developing consensus and policies across cultural, economic and political divides? How are sociological and cultural views incorporated into sustainability futures?

Learn from historical and agricultural examples of tackling sustainability issues. Gain knowledge of the development, poverty and power relations between countries and regions with differing economic and political stages. View sustainability from the view of consumers and urban settings.

 

Society and Sustainability: About sustainability modules:

13 modules available.

This information is for the 2024/25 academic year. 

IF YOU ARE AN INCOMING YEAR ONE STUDENT, YOU SHOULD ONLY CHOOSE LEVEL 1 MODULES. 

Module Code Module Title Level
PIED1201 Global Development Challenges 1
PIED1806 Contemporary Africas: Politics, Society and the Environment 1
SOEE1610 Introduction to Creating Sustainable Futures 1
GEOG2661 Social Ecological Systems 2
LUBS2405 Cross-Cultural Management 2
PIED2220 North-South Linkages 2
TRAN2041 Transport, Energy and Environment 2
TRAN2065 Transport and Social Sustainability 2
TRAN2066 Transport, People and Place 2
GEOG3121 Creating Alternative Futures 3
GEOG3291 Geographies of Global Insecurities: New Dynamics 3
LLLC3983 Creative Interventions in the City 3
TRAN3070 Healthy Cities: Transport and Health 3