The Textbook
It provides an integrated, system-oriented introduction to the concepts, theories and issues surrounding the quest for a sustainable future for Planet Earth.Lectures & Tools
In this section we are collecting lectures and interactive tools that can be used for research and teaching.Featured Content
Other Educational Material, Narratives and Relevant Content
Meat in Europe: a worldview assessment
The consumption of meat is increasingly becoming controversial as a spectrum of activists point at the negative side-effects for animal welfare, human health, local pollution and climate change inducing greenhousegas emissions. The meat industry and […]
Top-down or bottom-up, that is the question?
Every now and then I meet friends who have given up on changing the world: “It is too complex, too violent, too far away, and I feel powerless in the face of it. So I […]
Rethinking Sustainability: the ISDRS 2016 Conference
Lisbon, 13-16 July 2016
The 22nd ISDRS conference, titled Rethinking Sustainability Models and Practices: Challenges For The New and Old World Contexts, in Lisbon was very well organized, in the nice setting of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa […]
Sustainability and solidarity: recipes from a political scientist
Reading the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that were agreed upon by the United Nations in 2015 in the document Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (sustainabledevelopment.un.org), I am struck by the […]
Drought: the thin line between natural and man-induced change
A simplified scheme of the hydrological stocks and flows is given below. The climate variables precipitation and temperature over time are the most […]