Systems Thinking for Sustainability: Drawing complexity on a paper

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Systems Thinking for Sustainability: Drawing complexity on a paper
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Overview

Learn how systems mapping can help us understand the interacting, interrelated, and interdependent components within a system

Duration	3 weeks
Total fee	₹900
Mode of learning	Online
Official Website	Go to Website
Credential	Certificate

Systems Thinking for Sustainability: Drawing complexity on a paper
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Highlights

Earn a certificate from Except Integrated Sustainability

Systems Thinking for Sustainability: Drawing complexity on a paper
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FutureLearn
Course details

Who should do this course?

This sustainability management course is designed for anyone who would like to understand how systems mapping 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.

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

Evaluate the way success is defined for sustainable projects

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

Collaborate with sustainability experts and absorb new insight

Engage in your own project and develop system mapping skills

Systems Thinking for Sustainability: Drawing complexity on a paper
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Curriculum

How to break down systems in using System mapping

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.

How to generate engagement of your stakeholder

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

Systems Thinking for Sustainability: Drawing complexity on a paper
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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.