Governance of Sustainability (MSc)

Programme structure

To educate you as a sustainability broker in the public domain, we have chosen four sustainability themes and connected those to four governance themes.

The four sustainability themes were chosen to represent the most urgent sustainability challenges in terms of the extent to which planetary boundaries are being surpassed, which are i) Materials and Circular Economy, ii) Biodiversity and Ecosystems, iii) Climate and Energy and iv) Water and Toxicity.

In the context of this programme, we link an understanding on those sustainability challenges on the governance thereof by the public domain. The programme distinguishes four overarching governance themes:

1. Institutions and policy cycles
2. Collaborative governance dynamics
3. Governance of social and political change
4. Modes and models of decision making

In each of these themes, the interplay between the different key actors such as scientific experts, citizens, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), policy advisors, politicians, and companies is central.

For an up-to-date course overview, please visit the Prospectus.