Dates
| weekly | Wednesday | 12:15 - 13:45 | 12.10.2026 - 29.01.2027 | C 25.021 Seminarraum |
Curriculum context
Essay (50%)
Resit date: No resit date will be offered to this assessment, because it is didactically inseparably connected with one of the associated courses. A resit will only be possible, if the module is available again.
Organizational information
Registration
Registration ends on 12.10.2026 at 23:59.
Persons
Content
The course will explore how space shapes understandings of sustainability, with a focus on: scale and sustainability; system boundaries and sustainability and spatial relations and sustainability. The course will draw on multiple perspectives on space from the natural and social sciences, and places a particular emphasis on appropriate scales for conceptualizing and managing sustainability in relation to equitable outcomes.
In addition to general discussions on space and sustainability there will be 4 in depth case studies looking at important approaches within sustainability science (landscape sustainability science (Wu, 2013); Ecologically unequal exchange (Hornborg, 1998); Socio-technical transitions (Geels, 2011) and Social-ecological systems (Ostrom, 2009)) and how they conceptualize space in relation to sustainability.
To provide insights on how 'space' is conceptualized (or not conceptualized) in different approaches to sustainability science. The seminar is relatively theoretical and hopefully a good complement to some of the more methodologically focused courses in the spatial science minor.
Evaluation
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