Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Reaching UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through Systems Thinking
Historical mismanagement and laboratory experiments have revealed misperceptions. The course provides thinking tools to understand and deal with the basic complexities that underlie most societal problems. The course focuses on sustainability and the problem of reaching the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) regarding natural resources such as fisheries, climate, and energy, how to achieve a circular economy, how to deal with emergencies, and participatory methods for decision-making.
7 weeks, 10 hours per week
Erling Moxnes
Professor Emeritus of System Dynamics
University of Bergen
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Evaluate policies that have been used for resource management
- Compare different sutainability problems and explore similarities
- Explore sustainability problems in simulators by making decisions over time
- Describe resource systems in terms of stocks and flows
- Describe resource systems in terms of feedback loops and nonlinearities
- Debate values and approaches to democratic decision-making
- Investigate circular economy and resilience
Syllabus
● Introduction to systems thinking and systems dynamics modeling
● Preventing mismanagement and collapse of renewable resources
● Interactions between food, water, energy, and climate
● Sustainable production and consumption
● Resilience and emergencies
● Participatory systems thinking and communication
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Issued on 27th March 2026
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