Discipline: Environmental Studies

Sustainable Food: Production and Consumption

This course focuses on concrete and innovative solutions that reshape our connection to food. These solutions recognize and address the environmental and social impacts of food. Critical questions include: What is the true cost of food?…

Sustainable Food: Production and Consumption

Food, Taste, and Waste

Sustainable development in food is becoming increasingly important in the agri-food sector and the global economy, in political debates, and in many consumers’ minds. In this course, we look into current sustainability trends in food consumerism…

DIS Summer - Food, Taste, and Waste

Sustainable Development in Northern Europe

This course helps you to better understand the complex societal challenges of sustainable development from a European perspective. Specific focus is given to the interplay between social, environmental, and economic solutions to address sustainability challenges on…

DIS Summer Course in Copenhagen, Sustainable Development in Northern Europe

Sustainable Denmark: Solutions and Dilemmas

Sustainable development is one of the most important challenges of our time. The 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals provide an essential framework to identify sustainable solution opportunities. This course explores key societal challenges and themes,…

Sustainable Denmark: Solutions to Dilemmas, summer elective course at DIS Copenhagen

Renewable Energy Systems

Climate change calls for radical rethinking of a sustainable environment – ultimately, a change towards a 100% renewable energy society. But is this possible? This course examines the technical, economic, political, and social aspects of renewable…

Summer study tour to Germany, Renewable Energy Systems, DIS Copenhagen

Environmental Philosophy

To understand the current climate crisis is to ask the question of man’s responsibility for nature. The course approaches environmental issues and sustainability from Scandinavian and philosophical perspectives. Experience first-hand how Danes answer these challenges in…

Environmental Philosophy, Summer course at DIS Copenhagen

Sustainable Business Strategy

This course involves a study of the ways in which different actors address sustainability and corporate social responsibility. The main focus is on Scandinavian corporations and their responses to demands and expectations from stakeholders, such as…