In this specialisation you will learn how to drive change in cities and communities towards sustainable, climate friendly, just, healthy and prosperous futures, and you will boost your career with new knowledge, understanding and skills for navigating urban transformations. This specialisation brings together a series of cutting-edge courses with world-leading teachers on cities, communities, sustainability, governance and innovation.
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In this specialisation you will learn how to drive change in cities and communities towards sustainable, climate friendly, just, healthy and prosperous futures, and you will boost your career with new knowledge, understanding and skills for navigating urban transformations. This specialisation brings together a series of cutting-edge courses with world-leading teachers on cities, communities, sustainability, governance and innovation.
In this specialisation you will learn how to drive change in cities and communities towards sustainable, climate friendly, just, healthy and prosperous futures, and you will boost your career with new knowledge, understanding and skills for navigating urban transformations. This specialisation brings together a series of cutting-edge courses with world-leading teachers on cities, communities, sustainability, governance and innovation.
This specialisation is offered by the IIIEE at Lund University and the City Futures Academy – an online learning community on urban transformations. Our flagship course, Greening the Economy: Sustainable Cities, is ranked in the Best Online Courses of All Time by Class Central. The ranking by Class Central contains 250 courses from 100 universities based on 170,000 reviews. Our specialisation builds on the success of the Greening the Economy: Sustainable Cities course.
A key approach embedded in the courses in this specialisation is the role of experimentation in urban transformations. In particular, urban living labs are highlighted as a means for catalysing change in cities and communities towards sustainable, climate friendly, just, healthy and prosperous futures. The experimentation within urban living labs offers the potential for accelerating transformations and systematic learning across urban and national contexts.
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Three courses
Greening the Economy: Sustainable Cities
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Greening the Economy: Sustainable Cities
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Urban Nature: Connecting Cities, Sustainability and Innovation
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Urban Nature: Connecting Cities, Sustainability and Innovation
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Cities and Consumption: Urban Sustainability and the Sharing Economy
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Cities and Consumption: Urban Sustainability and the Sharing Economy
(0 hours)Learning objectives
- Increased knowledge on sustainable cities and communities.
- Deeper understanding of the relationship between urbanization, decarbonisation and sustainability.
- Improved critical thinking on the opportunities and challenges for sustainable cities and communities as engines for greening the economy.
- Expanded ability to use systems thinking to assess sustainable cities and communities.
- Increased knowledge on sustainable cities and communities.
- Deeper understanding of the relationship between urbanization, decarbonisation and sustainability.
- Improved critical thinking on the opportunities and challenges for sustainable cities and communities as engines for greening the economy.
- Expanded ability to use systems thinking to assess sustainable cities and communities.
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