SySc 423 Systems Ideas and Sustainability: Limits, Structural Change, and Resilience

This course offers a systems-theoretic perspective on sustainability. Using graph theory, non-linear dynamics, game/decision theory, thermodynamics, and theories of complexity and complex adaptive systems, the course explores systems insights into the challenge of environmental, economic, and social sustainability and systems principles to help us meet this challenge.

Credits

4

Slash Listed Courses

Also offered for graduate-level credit as SySc 523 and may be taken only once for credit.

Prerequisite

upper-division standing and completion of one of the SySc 300-level cluster courses.