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This course examines the challenges and opportunities that face sustainable development across the world. As climate change and ecological stress become increasingly pressing problems, global poverty must be addressed using sustainable solutions. This recognition underlies a widespread shift away from resource intensive and environmentally damaging development patterns. Sustainable development requires creative thinking, trial and error, and a bottom-up approach tailored to local conditions and needs. This course familiarizes students with the concepts and methods that inform sustainable development. It allows students to identify unsustainable practices based on scientific and economic ideas and relate these ideas to real world case studies of contemporary development initiatives.