Sustainable Societies

Sustainable Societies is a program to develop a suite of regionally customized Sustainable Societies courses that offer college and university students, government officials, non-governmental organizations and those in the private sector the opportunity to learn about the social, economic and environmental challenges in their regions and understand how they can address them. These regional courses will be networked so that information about common problems, and relevant solutions can be shared.

To maximize the effectiveness of the inter-regional sharing, Sustainable Societies organizes material using twenty-five sustainability issue areas identified as most critical by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development. Issue information, case studies and strategies being used to effectively combat problems are organized according to these areas.

A fundamental principle of Sustainable Societies education is relevance to all fields of study and career. A priority outcome of Sustainable Societies is the creation of sustainability strategies that can be implemented in local communities.

The thumbnails below link to brief global summaries of the critical sustainability issues that each version of Sustainable Societies examines.

To learn more, click here to view our Sustainable Societies movie. (3:55)