Knowledge: Environmental and Sustainability Science will provide students with a basis for understanding both natural and social systems, emphasising the interlinkages and interdependence between environmental and social processes, and the ways in which they either enhance or undermine sustainability. Students will acquire knowledge that enables them to think critically about, issues such as the role of energy, biodiversity, and biogeochemical cycles in ensuring sustainability, the impact of different human activities on ecosystems or species, and about population growth and resource scarcity.   Skills: The course will equip students with an array of concepts, evidence and approaches that are useful when exploring criticaly questions of sustainability and development with holistic and interdisciplinary perspectives. A variety of case studies from both developed and developing countries in an increasingly globalised world will be used to illustrate the theories. Students may later wish to utilise concepts from Environmental and Sustainability Science in relation to their Bachelor thesis. Course participants who would like advice on this will be assisted additionally.

General competence:  The students will be able to define and conceptualize environmental sustainability and its limits with reference to particular types of problems.