Lectures related to Sustainability: Other Indicators

From IPAT to Sustainability

Explores the transition from IPAT to sustainability, focusing on ecosystem services, biosphere integrity, Impact Inequality, SDGs, Doughnut economy, and GDP growth.

Global Challenges: Sustainability and Future Narratives

Discusses sustainability through the Three Horizons framework, emphasizing the need for community-level actions and a new societal narrative for ecological transformation.

Climate & Sustainability Action Week

Delves into EPFL's Climate & Sustainability Action Week, a collaborative 5-day program focusing on methods, outcomes, emotional expression, and team work.

Human Needs and Wellbeing

Delves into human needs, satisfiers, sufficiency, and wellbeing within planetary boundaries, emphasizing the importance of meeting needs for sustainable development.

Planetary Boundaries: Assessing Environmental Limits

Covers planetary boundaries, emphasizing their importance for environmental stability and sustainability.

The Extractive Economy: From Extraction to Sustainability

Delves into the historical growth of population and economic activities through increased extraction of resources, discussing the transition to a sustainable economy and the possibility of economic growth.

Sustainable Strategies: Schwarz Group

Explores sustainable strategies, focusing on the Schwarz Group's approach to sustainability and its impact on financial performance.

Recycling and Sustainable Development: Challenges and Solutions

Examines the role of recycling in sustainable development, addressing its limitations and the importance of a circular economy.

Wealth-based Assessment: Sustainability and Wealth

Explores wealth-based assessment, wealth accounting, natural capital use, and convergence of wealth among nations.

Sustainable Materials: Lifecycle, Properties, and Design

Explores material lifecycle, properties, sustainability, and design, emphasizing the importance of auditing products for sustainability and discussing the evaluation of consumer products like LEGO.

Urban Resilient Territories: Challenges and Solutions

Delves into the challenges and successes of building resilient urban territories in alignment with planetary boundaries.

Acquisition: Delivery Models and Contract Management MOOC: Building expertise on developing sustainable and resilient infrastructure

Explores delivery models, acquisition management, works contracts, and sustainability provisions for infrastructure projects.

Historical Perspectives on Sustainability and Climate Action

Explores the historical evolution of sustainability and human impact on nature, emphasizing the importance of integrating social and environmental considerations in sustainability efforts.

Urban Sustainability Assessment Log in to Mediaspace to watch this video

Explores urban sustainability assessment, focusing on decision-making for sustainable cities through approaches, solution spaces, and indicator selection.

Systems Thinking: Addressing Complex Environmental Challenges Log in to Mediaspace to watch this video

Explores systems thinking as a vital approach to tackle complex environmental challenges and promote sustainability.

Global Challenges: Sustainability and Systemic Thinking Log in to Mediaspace to watch this video

Covers global sustainability challenges, emphasizing interdisciplinary approaches and systemic thinking for real-world applications.

Enterprise for Society: Training Future Leaders and Driving Innovation Log in to Mediaspace to watch this video

Emphasizes the role of academic collaboration in guiding business and society towards sustainable practices.

Sustainability Assessment: Urban Systems Log in to Mediaspace to watch this video

Explores sustainability assessment in urban systems, emphasizing holistic thinking and system dynamics.

Planetary Boundaries: Assessing Environmental Limits Log in to Mediaspace to watch this video

Covers the planetary boundaries framework, emphasizing its importance for sustainability and the risks of exceeding environmental limits.

Sustainability Assessment of Urban Systems Log in to Mediaspace to watch this video

Explores sustainability assessment for urban systems, focusing on key issues and indicator frameworks.