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Systems Thinking for Sustainability: Analyzing and Transitioning Complex Systems

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Course Features

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Duration

3 weeks

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Delivery Method

Online

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Available on

Lifetime Access

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Accessibility

Mobile, Desktop

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Language

English

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Subtitles

English

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Level

Intermediate

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Effort

4 hours per week

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Teaching Type

Self Paced

Course Description

System analysis is an important tool for driving sustainable change using systems thinking. To drive system change, you must first understand the structure of a system and its roles and influence. Then you can analyze that information and derive meaningful insights.

With a solid analysis structure, you can navigate complex social phenomena and become a more powerful change-maker within your field of influence.

After completing this course, your knowledge will be enhanced by the ability to analyze complex systems and translate these findings into sustainable strategies.

System analysis and design are key to driving system change. This course will give you the theoretical tools and foundations for system analysis.

This course will teach you how to dissect complex systems into their various dimensions of space, time, and context. This will enable you to identify opportunities to influence strategic interventions that drive sustainable change. This will allow you to see how different interventions can have different levels of impact: indirect, systematic, or direct.nYou'll also learn about different approaches to complex system thinking such as holistic, reductionist, and symbiotic.

This course is focused on achieving meaningful, sustainable change. To achieve your sustainability goals, you will explore various strategies to create roadmaps for large-scale change.

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Skills You Will Gain

Prerequisites/Requirements

It would be suitable for purpose-driven professionals at public and private organisations

What You Will Learn

Access optimized versions of iterative design thinking

Design your own solutioning process

Evaluate the way success is defined for sustainable projects

Explore basic principles of systems thinking and network theory applied to sustainability

Identify the main concepts underlying sustainability, and its relevance in our society today

Interpret systemic behaviours in society, and how they relate to sustainability transitions

Perform quick impact scans across different dimensions of sustainability, enlarging your scope of impact

Target Students

It would be suitable for purpose-driven professionals at public and private organisations

This sustainability management course is designed for anyone who would like to understand how systems analysis can help us to build more sustainable systems

Course Instructors

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Nick Liasovskyi

Instructor

I am a sustainability consultant and I enjoy working on complex issues that require research, analysis, and creativity.

Ruben Bosschaert

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Ruben works at Except's Knowledge & Training pillar to develop and share the SiD methodology in a way that is understandable, comprehensive, up to date and valid.
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Zuza Nazaruk

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A creative communicator and journalist, Zuza creates tangible narratives of social importance via writing that encompasses academia, journalism, and creative forms.
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