There is a strong feeling that our disciplines can tackle the sustainability agenda, particularly in the following ways:

• By extracting lessons from specific examples of sustainable and unsustainable development.

• By taking long-term, global and comparative perspectives on questions of human survival.

• By side-stepping ‘paralysis by analysis’ by unpacking the use of concepts such as ‘nature’ and ‘progress’.

• By building the confidence of other to critique prevailing cultural trajectories and to propose alternate pathways.

This last point is especially important within the context of this module – the hope is that, by the end, you will have developed the confidence to critique the prevailing culture, as represented by the University, and to propose an alternate pathway.

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“I expect you all to be independent, innovative, critical thinkers, who will do exactly as I say.”

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