Browse Hierarchy BUSM239: Sustainability Challenges

This module examines the broad and historical challenges to achieving sustainability in three arenas: economic, energy, and environmental. Topics include population, demographic transition and sustainable growth, historical energy transitions and their implications, historical energy use and stages of industrialisation, limits to growth and environmental impacts, and growth decoupling. Students use numerical and analytical methods to develop (and analyse) metrics and models of sustainability challenges using historical data spanning 300 years. Typical models include (but are not limited to): statistical and econometric analysis, multivariate time series models, simulation, forecasting, and optimisation. Case studies, empirical research and numerical analysis will be based on real-world data.