Systems Thinking for Sustainability: Analyzing and Transitioning Complex Systems

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Systems Thinking for Sustainability: Analyzing and Transitioning Complex Systems
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FutureLearn
Overview

Explore complex systems analysis structures, through which you can design strategic interventions to drive sustainable change

Duration	3 weeks
Total fee	₹900
Mode of learning	Online
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Credential	Certificate

Systems Thinking for Sustainability: Analyzing and Transitioning Complex Systems
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FutureLearn
Highlights

Earn a certificate from Except Integrated Sustainability

Systems Thinking for Sustainability: Analyzing and Transitioning Complex Systems
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FutureLearn
Course details

Skills you will learn

Marketing Research Sustainability Networking Marketing

Who should do this course?

This sustainability management course is designed for anyone who would like to understand how systems analysis can help us to build more sustainable systems.

What are the course deliverables?

Identify the main concepts underlying sustainability, and its relevance in our society today.

Explore basic principles of systems thinking and network theory applied to sustainability.

Access optimized versions of iterative design thinking.

Perform quick impact scans across different dimensions of sustainability, enlarging your scope of impact.

Evaluate the way success is defined for sustainable projects.

Interpret systemic behaviours in society, and how they relate to sustainability transitions.

Design your own solutioning process

More about this course

This course will lay a foundation for your implementation of systems change by giving you the theoretical tools for systems analysis.
You'll learn to break down complex systems into their different dimensions of time, space, and context
This will allow you to see where you can influence strategic interventions to drive sustainable change
You'll consider how different interventions can have different scales of impact: direct, indirect, or systematic.
You'll also explore different approaches to complex systems thinking, such as reductionist, holistic, and symbiotic methodologies.
The course focuses on driving meaningful and actionable sustainable change
You will, therefore, explore different strategies for creating roadmaps for large-scale changes, to bring your sustainability goals into reach.

Systems Thinking for Sustainability: Analyzing and Transitioning Complex Systems
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FutureLearn
Curriculum

How to break down systems in dimensions of time, space, and context, to better understand them.

How to analyze strategic interventions across different scales of impact - i.e. direct impact, indirect impact, systemic impact.

Different approaches in complex systems thinking - reductionist, holistic, and symbiotic.

Different strategies for visualizing large-scale transitions on roadmaps that makes them tangible.

Systems Thinking for Sustainability: Analyzing and Transitioning Complex Systems
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FutureLearn
Faculty details

Tom Bosschaert

Tom is a renowned sustainability focused entrepreneur, architect, author, and advisor. He developed the Symbiosis in Development (SiD) framework, and leads his field with 20+ years of experience.