This course has two main objectives. The first is to provide sound knowledge on the concept of resource use as a key environmental sustainability challenge at various scales that is fundamental to the environmental governance questions. The second is to present the resource efficiency as a technological and systemic solution through various options that help to decouple the resource use from the environmental sustainability. This course approaches these questions more from angle of sustainable consumption, use and demand side rather than the management of ecosystem and natural resources.
The students, on completion of this course, will be able to:
- comprehend the state of key resource use and patterns at multiple scales;
- interpret the resource use vis-vis its implications to environmental sustainability; and
- examine the options and opportunities for enhancing the resource efficiency at multiple contexts.
- Teacher: Prof. Shobhakar Dhakal