This course focuses on the organizational aspects of sustainable change, encouraging students to create alternative scenarios of future business worlds. The focus lies on how businesses, states and other societal actors respond to the most urgent ecological and climate challenges of our time. During the course, we will address different definitions of sustainability and different organizational forms of the sustainability work, addressing the following questions: How do businesses and key societal actors organize to respond to complex and multi-scalar problems associated with the ecological and climate crises? How do different societal actors organize to build more sustainable lifeforms in different parts of the world?
The course includes perspectives on different forms of organising sustainable change through for example global governance, sustainable innovations, grassroots movements, social mobilizations, and regenerative designs. During the course, we assess the effects of different forms of organising sustainable change at the local, regional and global level.
The course can be taken as part of the study module in Corporate Responsibility.
- Teacher: Maria Ehrnström-Fuentes
- Teacher: Anna Maaranen