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About the Course

How can we live a good life on one planet with over seven billion people? This course will explore greening the economy on four levels – individual, business, city, and nation. We will look at the relationships between these levels and give many practical examples of the complexities and solutions across the levels. Scandinavia, a pioneering place advancing sustainability and combating climate change, is a unique starting point for learning about greening the economy. We will learn from many initiatives attempted in Scandinavia since the 1970s, which are all potentially helpful and useful for other countries and contexts. The International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE) at Lund University is an international centre of excellence on strategies for sustainable solutions. The IIIEE is ideally suited to understand and explain the interdisciplinary issues in green economies utilising the diverse disciplinary backgrounds of its international staff. The IIIEE has been researching and teaching on sustainability and greener economies since the 1990s and it has extensive international networks connecting with a variety of organizations....

Top reviews

MK

Oct 5, 2015

Amazing and inspiring. Especially love the interviews at the end of each week. Very good pace and amount of information. Teacher are experts in their field. Love every minute of the lecturers!

YM

Oct 17, 2020

Great course! I love how well organised it is, and how everything is (from assignments to course setup) explained. As someone who is new to the field, I found the material very accessible.

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By Lakshmi.K.Kumar

May 16, 2018

Learnt a lot - good course.

By Noelle L

Jun 14, 2017

Great course! Thumbs up!

By Laura L P d C

Jan 19, 2016

Great! Very well done!

By Shreyas D

Jun 10, 2016

beautiful love sweden

By Sami U

Oct 23, 2016

Highly recommended.

By Marcos G

Dec 8, 2015

I liked the course!

By Ayodya H

Sep 5, 2022

Excellent Course!

By Anabel D U

May 9, 2020

Excellent course.

By Lavdrim X

Mar 21, 2019

Excellent Course

By Thomas H

Mar 16, 2020

Excellent co

By 李昌良

Dec 1, 2015

very good!

By Pedro S

Oct 12, 2015

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By Marthe v L

Oct 11, 2015

Excellent course, very interesting. Lots of different lecturers that address different aspects of climate change and sustainable development. This course is great for those who want to gain a broad introductory understanding of sustainable development with specific regard to individuals, businesses and cities. The only downside for me is that the lectures remain quite abstract, and even though many examples are mentioned, the course doesn't give you specific tools or very detailed knowledge or solutions.

By Andrei P

Oct 12, 2021

This course was very beneficial to my understanding of ways to green the world's economies. The course was taught by and geared towards the Scandinavian example, but I wish there were more examples provided from different contexts around the world rather than the homogenous, wealthy, developed nations of Europe. MOOC structure was nice due to flexibility on the student's part. I enjoyed the lectures and thought the assignments were a great length/degree of difficulty!

By Gabriel R B

May 5, 2021

Excellent course build up, the variaty of videos and activities work really well and its very well paced. 1 star missing would be for improvements: students reviewing the activities is terrible, someone in charge of this course should be responsible for this activities reviews and feedbacks, not the learners. Second are the video contents, they are basically people reading the Compendium, the best videos are the ones with real opinions, perspectives and knowledge.

By Michalis T

Feb 6, 2016

A nice introductory course on greening the economy. I wish it would go a bit deeper in some issues.

The difficulty level was for me, just too easy. Maybe I was not the target group after all, since I have previous knowledge in the subject.

Nevertheless, for someone who is new to the subject, this is a very well strucutred and easy to follow course.

By Patrick F

Nov 30, 2020

A worthwhile overview, with a lot of breadth to it. Only negative experience was the last quiz. Several questions could not be answered correctly from the readings or lectures. I had to spend a lot of time simply re-doing the quiz, changing the answers until by process of elimination, I got the correct ones.

By Sophie B

Feb 23, 2024

I personally really enjoyed this course as it gave me a clear and broad understanding of the basics of a green economy. While I enjoyed writing the peer reviewed assignments, the grading system doesn't work as intended and it takes a long time for peers to grade an assignment.

By Ola O

Dec 28, 2019

I have better understanding for the difference in approach and willingness depending on if it is personal, community, business or government. And the different possibilities and ways to influence these questions depending on which role you have in these different groups.

By Adri G

Oct 18, 2020

This course offers material to start investigating about the world of sustainability, to help society and our planet. The interviews, readings, hints of the teacher's explanations and the required tasks make you question things and wanting to dig deeper.

By Zulfiqar A

Apr 14, 2019

A very good course. I rated 4/5 because it is just a beginner level course. You can understand the stuff if you have baisc knowledge of basic sciences, but for people like me with professional degrees it somewhat primitive or a basic course.

By Joe W

Jan 11, 2019

Interesting as a first step to better understand the concepts of sustainability and greening the economy. It's however necessary to propose a second course that goes deeper in some of the key concepts.

By Melissa F

Jun 6, 2016

An interesting course by the lecturers, supplemented with real life cases/interviews. Will like to learn more about the strategies for outreach and public policy. Overall, ver

By Julien M

Oct 14, 2015

Interesting concepts, interesting way of presenting them and the peer-assignement is a great way to discover knew things while review our classmates.

By Gearóid F

Mar 20, 2017

This programme offers a great introduction and background to the thinking on the Green economy, as well as very useful examples from Scandinavia.