Code: 2.1
Systems thinking
To approach a sustainability problem from all sides; to consider time, space and context in order to understand how elements interact within and between systems.
Code: 2.1
To approach a sustainability problem from all sides; to consider time, space and context in order to understand how elements interact within and between systems.
Knows that every human action has environmental, social, cultural and economic impacts.
Knows that human action influences outcomes across time and space, leading to positive, neutral or negative results.
Knows about life cycle thinking and its relevance for sustainable production and consumption.
Knows the main concepts and aspects of complex systems (synthesis, emergence, interconnectedness, feedback loops and cascade effects) and their implications for sustainability.
Knows the United Nations SDGs and is aware of interconnections and possible tensions between individual goals.
Can describe sustainability as a holistic concept that includes environmental, economic, social, and cultural issues.
Can assess interactions between environmental, economic, social, and cultural aspects of sustainability action, events and crises (e.g. migration caused by climate change or wars caused by resource scarcity).
Can assess how humans and nature interact across space and time.
Can use life cycle thinking to analyse the risks and benefits of human action.
Can identify in a system those challenges and opportunities that have the greatest potential to trigger change for sustainability.
Acknowledges the root causes of unsustainability for which humans are responsible, such as climate change.
Has a holistic grasp of connections and interactions between natural events and human actions.
Is concerned about the short- and long-term impacts of personal actions on others and the planet.
Cares about systemic consequences of environmental crises for current and future generations and for other species.
Is concerned about unpredictable cascade effects of human action.