SySc 523 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. Also offered for undergraduate-level credit as SySc 423 and may be taken only once for credit.