MF2093 Sustainable Consumption 6.0 credits
The starting point for this course is United Nations’s sustainability development goal nr 12: Responsible consumption and production. This and the other 16 goals will guide the work of UN’s and all the states that signed the agreement, until 2030. UN has actually decided that Sweden will become a forerunner for goal nr 12.
This course takes a broad look at sustainable consumption, what it is, what the problem is and what to do about it. What is the responsibility of the individual consumer vs society? What can organisations and companies do?
We will start by going through the consumption areas food, shopping, housing, travel and banking. How do they affect the environment and what could a responsible consumption be? The second part will take a bigger perspective looking at behavioural change, values and lifestyles, wellbeing, and encourages you to take action yourself.
This is an oniine course that you take when its suits you, all lectures are recorded and all assignments are done online. We will have one voluntary seminar on campus in october. Expect to spend 8 hours per week on the course.
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Application
For course offering
Autumn 2024 Start 26 Aug 2024 programme students
Application code
50649
Content and learning outcomes
Course contents
Intended learning outcomes
After passing the course, the students should be able to:
- understand how consumption is connected to ecological, social and economic sustainability.
- understand which consumption categories that have largest environmental impact and why, as well as how the consumption is connected to values, lifestyle and income.
- describe how the consumption looks in a global perspective, how it is changed, and forecasts for the future.
- state the connection between design and consumption and how design methodology can be used to achieve a more sustainable consumption.
- understand and reflect on your own footprint and create a strategy for how it can be reduced with an energy descent plan.
- know and use different methods to influence, change and plan for a more sustainable consumption.
Literature and preparations
Specific prerequisites
Bachelor Degree.
Recommended prerequisites
Equipment
Literature
Current research articles and reports.
Examination and completion
If the course is discontinued, students may request to be examined during the following two academic years.
Grading scale
Examination
- INL1 - Hand in Exercise, 3.0 credits, grading scale: P, F
- SEM1 - Seminar, 3.0 credits, grading scale: P, F
Based on recommendation from KTH’s coordinator for disabilities, the examiner will decide how to adapt an examination for students with documented disability.
The examiner may apply another examination format when re-examining individual students.
Other requirements for final grade
Passed exercises and written assignments.
Opportunity to complete the requirements via supplementary examination
Opportunity to raise an approved grade via renewed examination
Examiner
Ethical approach
- All members of a group are responsible for the group's work.
- In any assessment, every student shall honestly disclose any help received and sources used.
- In an oral assessment, every student shall be able to present and answer questions about the entire assignment and solution.