Planning for Sustainable Development
MIT OpenCourseWare offers this graduate course on the policy and planning challenges behind sustainable development. It examines sustainability as a process of social, organizational, and political change, drawing on case studies from the United States and Europe. Topics include debates on ecological modernization, sustainable technology development, international and intergenerational fairness, and democratic governance as a mechanism for balancing environmental and economic goals. Materials include the syllabus, readings, and assignments as published on MIT OpenCourseWare, free to access with no certificate offered. The course is suited to students interested in how planners and policymakers reconcile growth with environmental limits, using real regulatory and institutional examples rather than abstract theory alone.