Updated 2020-04-08 at 23:06 DM
… for every complex problem there’s a simple solution, and it’s wrong.
– Umberto Eco
… at every level the greatest obstacle to transforming the world is that we lack the clarity and imagination to conceive that it could be different.
– Roberto Unger
This is the Merriam-Webster definition of ‘culture’ https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/culture
1 a : the customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group
also : the characteristic features of everyday existence (such as diversions or a way of life) shared by people in a place or time
b : the set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes an institution or organization
c : the set of values, conventions, or social practices associated with a particular field, activity, or societal characteristic
d : the integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief, and behavior that depends upon the capacity for learning and transmitting knowledge to succeeding generations
Learning outcomes week 17-23
On completion of the course, the student should be able to:
- critically review and analyse global power relations and apply an equity perspective on the climate change challenge;
- analyse and evaluate different proposed solutions and their opportunities, limitations and risks within the climate field;
- apply skills within leadership, cooperation, organisation and communication specifically connected to different contemporary and future scenarios within the climate field;
- analyse and interpret different theories of leadership, cooperation, organisation and communication for a functioning climate change leadership.