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Global Challenges
Global Challenges
• Introduction to Sustainability
• Defining and Understanding the concept of sustainability and sustainable
development. Defining of sustainability related terms
• History of Sustainability
• History of Unsustainability, theoretical advances and institutionalisation of
sustainability
• Global Challenges as ‘Wicked’ Problems
Test dates
Test 1 - 29th of August 2022 from 10:30 – 12:00
(BUXTON STR ROOM 201)
Test 2 - 17th of October 2022 from 10:30 – 12:00
(to be announced)
Assignment Submission
26th October 2022
(Online)
What is a “wicked problem”?
• Today’s low-income countries still have the world’s highest birth rates
although women tend to have fewer children than before.
• That midway point (when half the natural oil reserves have
been used up) is described as ‘peak oil’
• Analysts are concerned about peak oil due to two main trends:
1. Rising human population with growing global economies with
increased consumption
2. Declining oil reserves
• As oil supply declines and population rises - a gap between
supply and demand will appear and grow larger