Sustainable development: A case study approach

About this programme

No fees are charged for EU and EEA citizens, Swedish residence permit holders and exchange students. Together with other students from your own and other scientific disciplines, you conduct a case study focusing on how society plans for sustainable development in a local context. During the course, you together with your group members, map, analyze, model and evaluate problems, challenges and opportunities for sustainable development. A central part of this work is that you will interact with authorities, experts, locals, etc. The results you present at the end of the course in the form of a written report and an oral presentation. The course gives you training in planning and implementing a project, identifying and using different methods to analyze sustainable development in theory and in practice, to interact with community actors, and to present important results from the case study. You will take part in some introductory lectures and literature discussions at the beginning of the course, but primarily the course is conducted in the form of a practical joint project work, where you, together with your group mates, largely control what is to be done. The teacher responsible for the course presents the actual study area, but you students decide the daily work in the groups yourselves. This is done under the supervision of one or more teachers. During the project work, you report what is done by keeping a diary with reflections on your own process and learning. University studies of at least 180 credits, including at least 60 credits within environmental science, nat