Read each of the knowledge check questions below then click the down arrow to reveal the answer.
Question: Sustainability Challenges are Urgent and Contested. Can you name the other characteristics?
Sustainability challenges span TIME, and can be looked at from past, present, and future perspectives.
Sustainability challenges span SECTORS, like government and business, they cannot be solved by any one sector.
Sustainability challenges span SPACE, like local to global, they are not just in one place.
Sustainability challenges span DIMENSIONS, like social sciences and economics, they are not the study of any one academic discipline.
WORKBOOK ACTIVITY:
Review the 5 Characteristics of Sustainability Challenges then continue to the Describe Your Sustainability Challenges page of the workbook to describe the problem you have identified as sustainability challenge.