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
Utopias: Imagined futures as orientors for worldviews
Worldviews often orient themselves to particular ideals, about human individuals and societies. Famous descriptions of an ideal society in literature are known as utopias: a place (τοπος) that is good (ευ) – or, in another […]
The Utrecht Griftpark: the Dynamism of Environmental Pollution
On the eastside of Utrecht, there is a large area with a lake, a playground, trees, statues, an animal farm. It’s a very enjoyable place for all kinds of people and activities. Yet, only 60 […]
Nauru: phosphate, fish, money and refugees on a 21st century Easter Island? *
Some 1500 km east of Papua New Guinea, in the Pacific, is the small island of Nauru. It is the smallest independent republic, with nowadays some 12.000 inhabitants on an area of less than 25 […]
Sao Paulo drought: water shortage and water governance*
October 2014. Latin America’s biggest metropolis may, again, run out of water. For some of the 20 million residents across Sao Paulo, taps are already running […]
Water as a commodity: ban on bottled water in Australian town*
The market has discovered scarcity as something to be desired. The Stock Fund Utilities department of the dutch bank ING announced in 2007:”…prospects remain good. In the states of California and New York energy shortages […]