Sustainability Challenges

Sustainability Challenges.mp4

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?

Characteristic #1

Sustainability challenges span TIME, and can be looked at from past, present, and future perspectives.

Characteristic #3

Sustainability challenges span SECTORS, like government and business, they cannot be solved by any one sector.

Characteristic #2

Sustainability challenges span SPACE, like local to global, they are not just in one place.

Characteristic #4

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.