Learning Outcomes

This module allows students to acquire a critical understanding of the social, economic and environmental processes, which have given rise to the discourses and practices associated with sustainable development. Students will be able to specify clearly the goals and policy aims of sustainable development and exhibit an awareness of the limitations of sustainability as a societal model. In addition students will gain an awareness of the geographical factors which influence the emergence of different sustainable development strategies within different national contexts. On completion of the module, students should be able to:

a) Describe and evaluate the principles of sustainable development.

b) Specify clearly the kinds of national and international factors which have given rise to the emergence of sustainable development as a political objective.

c) Exemplify the different forms of sustainable society, which have emerged within the developed, developing and post-socialist worlds.

d) Discuss and evaluate using specific examples, the limitations of sustainability as both an international policy discourse and a set of social and economic practices.

e) Show in their written examination evidence of the development of transferable skills through the depth of their reading and use of other sources, their interpretation, evaluation and critical synthesis of a range of material and the marshalling of an argument in written form.

Aims

Content