Introduction to Sustainable Development in Practice

This introductory course teaches learners WHAT is an integrated approach to sustainable development and WHY is it needed. The course explains the rationale, drivers, challenges, and opportunities for an integrated approach to tackling poverty-environment issues. The course lays the foundations for an advanced course focused on HOW to apply the integrated approach in practice. 

Why take this course?After completing the introductory course, learners will be able to: Discuss the poverty and environment nexus and related concepts. Identify related international developments, as well as global and regional trends. Explain the rationale and drivers behind integrating policy planning.  Identify challenges and opportunities for advancing an integrated approach. Give examples of enabling policy conditions for integrating poverty and environment issues. This course is based on Chapter 1 of the publication "Sustainable Development in Practice: A Handbook for Integrating Environment, Climate and Poverty Reduction" (Bass et al., 2023).