Sustainable development and sustainable healthcare – Resource bank for teachers
Here you will find tips on materials to use in teaching for sustainable development and sustainable healthcare.
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About the content of the resource bank
The resource bank does not aim to be a comprehensive listing of everything available within the broad field of sustainable development. Instead, it is intended as a support tool for teachers at Karolinska Institutet (KI) who are looking for materials and concrete exercises to get started.
KI is a health-focused university that educates the healthcare professionals of the future. Therefore, the emphasis of the included materials is on health. The resource bank contains materials on sustainable healthcare, planetary health, and resources that explore the connections between the different dimensions of sustainable development (social, economic, and environmental sustainability) and health.
Activity bank i Canvas
In addition to this resource bank, there is also an activity bank in Canvas with suggestions for study questions and teaching activities that you can use in your teaching. Some of these are available as ready-made modules that you can copy into your existing Canvas activities.
A good tip is also to look into books about teaching for sustainable development, as they often include suggestions for various teaching activities and group exercises.
(För titlar märkta med en asterisk * finns instuderingsfråga eller annan lärandeaktivitet)
- Wokje Abrahamse: Encouraging Pro-Environmental Behaviour : What Works, What Doesn't, and Why
- Karen Hamann m fl: The Psychology of Collective Climate Action (finns tillgänglig online)
Boksamlingar
KIB har skapat boksamlingar för hållbar utveckling.
Om hållbar utveckling
- Fredrik Hedenius, Martin Persson, Frances Sprei: Hållbar utveckling – nyanser och tolkningar *
- Thunberg, Greta (red): Klimatboken *
Miljömässig hållbarhet och planetär hälsa
- Thunberg, Greta (red): Klimatboken *
- Johan Rockström & Owen Gaffney: Jorden - vår planets historia och framtid
- Andy Haines & Howard Frumkin: Planetary Health *
- Nilsson, Mats: Spelet om klimatet
Social hållbarhet
- Michael Marmot: The Health Gap
- Robert D Putnam: Bowling Alone - The collapse and revival of American community
- Rutger Bregman: Utopia för realister
- Biglan, Anthony: The Nurture Effect *
- Wilkinson, Richard & Pickett, Kate: Den inre ojämlikheten/The Inner Level
- Wilkinson, Richard & Pickett, Kate: Jämlikhetsanden/The Spirit level
Ekonomisk hållbarhet
- Jennifer Hinton (bokkapitel): A Not-For-Profit Economy for a Regenerative Sustainable World (finns att ladda ned här)
- Kate Raworth: Doughnut economics: Seven ways to think like a 21st-century economist
- James Suzman: Work: A history of how we spend our time
- Bregman, Rutger: Utopia för realister
- Hjorth Warlenius, Richard: Klimatet, tillväxten och kapitalismen
- Marmot, Michael: The Health Gap
- Suzman, James: Work: A History of How We Spend Our Time
- Wilkinson, Richard & Pickett, Kate: Den inre ojämlikheten/The Inner Level
- Wilkinson, Richard & Pickett, Kate: Jämlikhetsanden/The Spirit level
Den mänskliga naturen
- Frida Hylander, Kali Andersson, Kata Nylén: Klimatpsykologi : hur vi skapar hållbar förändring *
- Rutger Bregman: Humankind - A hopeful history *
- Jonathan Haidt: The Righteous Mind - Why good people are divided by politics and religion *
- Daniel Kahneman: Tänka, snabbt och långsamt/Thinking fast and slow
- Beau Lotto: Deviate
- Nina Wormbs & Maria Wolrath Söderberg: Ursäkta mig! : argument som driver och bromsar klimatomställning
- Biglan, Anthony: The Nurture Effect
- Bregman, Rutger: Utopia för realister
- Nilsson, Andreas: Klimat och psykologi : varför vi inte agerar hållbart och vad vi kan göra åt det
- Scott, Amel, Koger & Manning: Psychology for Sustainability
Att arbeta för hållbar utveckling
- Rob Hopkins: From What Is to What If: Unleashing the power of imagination to create the future we want.
- Halpern, David: Inside the Nudge Unit
- Machado de Oliveira, Vanessa: Hospicing Modernity
- Thaler, Richard H. & Sunstein, Cass R.: Nudge
Hållbar hälso- och sjukvård
- Jeffrey Braithwaite, Yvonne Zurynski, Carolynn K-lynn Smith (Red): Handbook of Climate Change and Health System Sustainability
- Vilhelmsson, Andreas (red): Klimatmedicin
- Åsa Engström, Päivi Juuso, Madeleine Liljegren, Lotta Lundmark Alfredsson, Anna Bengtsson: Vård, omsorg och rehabilitering utomhus : teori, praktik och nya perspektiv
Om undervisning för hållbar utveckling
- Amel, Manning, Daus & Quinn: Fostering Sustainability in Higher Education
- Bränberg, Homgren & Wester: Att undervisa för hållbar utveckling
- Sterling, Steven: Learning and Sustainability in Dangerous Times
- Van Poeck, Östman & Öhman: Sustainable Development Teaching
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Hållbar utveckling
- Climate misinformation turning crisis into catastrophe, report says
- World faces new danger of ‘economic denial’ in climate fight, Cop30 head says
- Missile defence won’t prevent the health crises that rock global security
- Evolution of the polycrisis: Anthropocene traps that challenge global sustainability
- WHO: Just four industries cause 2.7 million deaths in the European Region every year. *
- WHO: Commercial Determinants of Noncommunicable Diseases in the WHO European Region
- Planetary Health Diet associated with lower risk of premature death, lower environmental impact
- WHO: Mental health and climate change: Policy brief *
- Film: The Shitthropocene – welcome to the age of cheap crap
- The meaning of the Anthropocene: why it matters even without a formal geological definition
- The UN needs a new mission: get stuff done
- Picture an all-seeing eye scanning the dying Earth – and then lighting on our ‘solutions’ at Cop29
Miljömässig hållbarhet och planetär hälsa
- People were wrecking the climate 140 years ago — we just lacked the tech to spot it
- ‘Ticking timebomb’: sea acidity has reached critical levels, threatening entire ecosystems – study
- Exclusive: Inside the thriving wild-animal markets that could start the next pandemic
- ‘Technofossils’: how humanity’s eternal testament will be plastic bags, cheap clothes and chicken bones
- Your brain is full of microplastics: are they harming you?
- “A stark reminder”: Record-breaking CO2 Levels Recorded for Earth’s Polar Regions
- Just 9.5% of plastic made in 2022 used recycled material, study shows
- Will global climate action be a casualty of Trump’s tariffs?
- Suddenly Miners Are Tearing Up the Seafloor for Critical Metals
- Microplastics found in human ovary follicular fluid for the first time
- The UK’s gamble on solar geoengineering is like using aspirin for cancer
- How climate change will burden our children: data reveal a lifetime of extreme heat
- Two-thirds of global heating caused by richest 10%, study suggests
- Om samma studie och fråga: The rich bear their fair share of climate costs
- Naturvårdsverket: Luft och miljö *
- Earth beyond six of nine Planetary Boundaries
- How climate change is hitting Europe: three graphics reveal health impacts
- Study: A third of Africa’s great apes at risk from mining of transition metals
- Extreme heat is a huge killer — these local approaches can keep people safe
- Exposure to air pollution and living in a country with high socioeconomic inequality are linked to a bigger gap between brain age and chronological age.
- Bumble bees lose their sense of smell after heat waves
- The melting brain
- Bat loss linked to death of human babies
- Why the next pandemic could come from the Arctic — and what to do about it
- Academics say flying to meetings harms the climate — but they carry on
- Growing number of Earth's ‘vital signs’ endangered by climate change
- Don’t overshoot: why carbon dioxide removal will achieve too little, too late
- Trees and land absorbed almost no CO2 last year. Is nature’s carbon sink failing?
- How to recover when a climate disaster destroys your city
- How the U.S. election has an outsized effect on global reproductive health
- A systematic review and meta-analysis of heat exposure impacts on maternal, fetal and neonatal health
- Human body’s ageing ‘clock’ ticks faster after heat stress
- Exposure to air pollution leads to racial health disparities
- Major report joins dots between world's nature challenges
- Earth breaches 1.5 °C climate limit for the first time: what does it mean?
- Why we still don’t know the mounting health risks of climate change
- The Los Angeles wildfires are climate disasters compounded
- Air pollution and brain damage: what the science says
Social hållbarhet
- Based on the science, diversity matters (Editorial, finns som PDF & DOI också)
- US aid cuts are an opportunity to reimagine global health
- How researchers can work fairly with Indigenous and local knowledge
- Academia needs a more honest, scientific approach to DEI
- Why we need to measure people’s well-being — lessons from a global survey
- Social media use in adolescents with and without mental health conditions
- Walking in two worlds: how an Indigenous computer scientist is using AI to preserve threatened languages
- The scars of war last for centuries: how we understand collective trauma needs to change
- Why loneliness is hazardous to your health *
- Loneliness and Social Isolation as Risk Factors for Mortality
- How white supremacy became a global health problem *
- KI-notis: Det som påverkar mest är hur öppen man kan vara *
- WHO: Refugee and migrant health *
- Folkhälsomyndigheten: Ojämlikhet i psykisk hälsa i Sverige – hur är den psykiska hälsan fördelad och vad beror det på?
- Exposure to air pollution and living in a country with high socioeconomic inequality are linked to a bigger gap between brain age and chronological age.
- No research about us without us?
- Public health’s spirituality disconnect
- Social isolation could be a factor in why more older men are dying from extreme heat
- AI tool helps people with opposing views find common ground
- Health of people who are displaced in their own countries is a neglected global crisis
- Exposure to air pollution leads to racial health disparities
- Loneliness linked to ill health through effect on protein levels, research suggests
Ekonomisk hållbarhet
- Kate Raworth: Introduction to Doughnut Economics
- Are there limits to economic growth? It’s time to call time on a 50-year argument *
- Green growth or degrowth: what is the right way to tackle climate change? *
- Why it is time to rethink the meaning of work *
- Why the world cannot afford the rich
- Exposure to air pollution and living in a country with high socioeconomic inequality are linked to a bigger gap between brain age and chronological age.
- The revolutionary economist who became the unlikely leader of Bangladesh
- How rich is too rich?
- 2025 must be the year when the rules of global finance are reformed
- Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer
- Two-thirds of global heating caused by richest 10%, study suggests
- Om samma studie och fråga: The rich bear their fair share of climate costs
Mänskliga naturen
- Judgement and Decision Making (från webresursen NOBA Psychology) *
- Tankestrukturer-som-hindrar-omställning-och-hur-vi-kan-överkomma-dem *
- This AI chatbot got conspiracy theorists to question their convictions
- Systems are crumbling – but daily life continues. The dissonance is real
Arbete för hållbar utveckling
- The science of protests: how to shape public opinion and swing votes
- 'Glimmer of hope' for marine life at UN Ocean conference
- Microbes can capture carbon and degrade plastic — why aren’t we using them more?
- Six roadblocks to net zero — and how to get around them
- Three ways to cool Earth by pulling carbon from the sky
- Yes, Your Friends and Neighbors Want to Talk to You About Climate Change
- ‘Spiral of silence’: climate action is very popular, so why don’t people realise it?
- Activate climate’s ‘silent majority’ to supercharge action, experts say
- Meet the researchers pioneering Spanish climate solutions
- FOHM kritiseras på nytt för passivitet i klimatfrågan
- Dags att räkna in de som dör av trafiken i Nollvisionen
- This article won’t change your mind. Here’s why
- Om de är terrorister så vill jag också vara det
- Generalizing the core design principles for the efficacy of groups *
- Applying Behavioral Insights: Simple Ways to Improve Health Outcomes *
- Tidningen Advokaten: I rättsstaten kan statens klimatansvar prövas i domstol
- Rapport: Stöd för och attityder till klimatpolitik i Sverige *
- Radical flanks of social movements can increase support for moderate factions *
- The science of protests: how to shape public opinion and swing votes
- The cool technologies that could protect cities from dangerous heat
- Massive Attack’s science-led drive to lower music’s carbon footprint
- Confronting mobesity is vital for the global electrification of transport
- For the First Time, Part of the Ocean Has Been Granted Legal Personhood
- The Earth, Brain, Health Commission: how to preserve mental health in a changing environment
- How Countries Can Use Behavior Change to Further Reduce Emissions
- How to climate-proof crops: scientists say the secret’s in the dirt
- How to stop plastic pollution: three strategies that actually work
- I fled the war in Ukraine. Now I work on ways to help the country’s soil heal
- In a Noah’s Ark move, PNG migrants bring thousands of trees to safer ground
- To spur climate action, educators must get personal
- Seven quiet breakthroughs for climate and nature in 2024 you might have missed
- An Elven Alliance Is Protecting Iceland’s Natural Wonders
- Nobel laureates and preeminent scientists call for ‘moonshot’ food effort
Hållbar sjukvård
- Historic pandemic treaty is a triumph in a world being torn apart
- A New Era of Climate Action Calls for Climate Doctors
- Sjukvården hotas av klimatförändringar
- How to communicate about climate change with patients
- A pledge for planetary health to unite health professionals in the Anthropocene
- Health and social care professional standards need to be updated to advance leadership and action for environmental sustainability and planetary health
- Health Care Without Harm: Taking Environmental Action to Improve Lives and the Planet
- Health care’s climate footprint: the health sector contribution and opportunities for action
- How to communicate about climate change with patients
- Sustainability in quality improvement: redefining value
- Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency
- WHO issues urgent call for global climate action to create resilient and sustainable health systems
- Statens medicinsk-etiska råd (SMER): Uttalande med anledning av klimatkrisen
- Mpox offers another chance to confront vaccine inequity
- Leveraging the potential for deintensification in cancer care
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- Mapping Climate Change and Health into the Medical Curriculum
- The Implications of Behavioural Science for Effective Climate Policy (från Centre for Climate Change and Social transformations)
- Addressing the Climate Crisis An Action Plan for Psychologists (Från APA, American Psychological Association)
- Klimatförändringens och klimatanpassningens påverkan på hälso- och sjukvården: utmaningar och anpassningsstrategier
- Psychology of Climate Change (Linda Steg)
- The 2024 Global Report of the Lancet Countdown
- Sustainable Development Report*
- OECD Environmental Performance Reviews: Sweden 2025
- WWF Living Planet Report 2024
- WWF Toward a Healthy Planet: A One Health Approach to Conservation
- The Untapped Potential of Climate Communication: Harnessing Health to Drive Action
- Folkhälsomyndigheten: Hälsokonsekvenser av klimatförändring i Sverige – En risk- och sårbarhetsanalys
- WHO Mental health and Climate Change: Policy Brief
- Cambridge Sustainability Commission report on Scaling Behaviour Change
- Healthcare without harm: International strategic plan 2024-2028
- EFPA: Climate Crisis and the Human Factor: 10 Psychological Keys to Unlocking Climate Action
- EFPA Expert Reference Group Climate Change and Psychology – Glossary
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Hållbar utveckling
- Project Drawdown: Setting the stage (13 min)
- Paul Hawken: Dream of A Hundred-Year Plan (3:20 min)
- Rise: from One Island To Another (6:37 min)
- Jeffrey Sachs: Transformation Challenges (16 min) *
- Planetary Health Alliance: The promise of planetary health (10 min)
- Amnesty international: Climate Justice And Human Rights Explained (4:42 min)
- Is sustainability a lie? (7:44 min)
- Jeffrey Sachs: The Age of Sustainable Development (11 min)
- Project Drawdown: Setting the stage (13 min)
- Paul Hawken: Dream of A Hundred-Year Plan (3:20 min)
- Jeffrey Sachs: Transformation Challenges (16 min) *
Miljömässig hållbarhet och planetär hälsa
- Youtubekanal med alla inspelade föreläsningar från 19th Key Symposium 2025 on Planetary Health
- Johan Rockström (2010): 10 years to transform the future of humanity - or destabilize the planet (8 min) *
- Mongabay: What are the planetary boundaries? (3:55 min) *
- Sir David Attenborough Presents: Breaking Boundaries (Filmutdrag, 10:15 min) *
- Project Drawdown: Stopping Climate Change (16 min)*
- Johan Rockström (2010): Let the environment guide our development (18:41 min)
- Kevin Anderson: There Are No Non-Radical Futures (1 tim 29 min)
- Project Drawdown: Reducing Sources (24 min)
Social hållbarhet
- Robert Waldinger: What makes a good life? *
- What Makes Us Healthy? Understanding the Social Determinants of Health (6:27 min) *
- Kate Pickett: The Inner Level: How more equal societies reduce stress (35 min) *
- Sir Michael Marmot: Confronting the health Gap (29 min) *
- Tim Kasser: Materialistic values and goals (39 min)
Ekonomisk hållbarhet
- Kate Raworth: A healthy economy should be designed to thrive, not grow (16 min) *
- Jennifer Hinton: An economy for people and planet, not for profit (9:47 min) *
- Kate Pickett: The Inner Level: How more equal societies reduce stress (35 min) *
- Sir Michael Marmot: Confronting the health Gap (29 min) *
- Basic income Explained (11 min) *
Mänskliga naturen
Arbeta för hållbar utveckling
- Sille Krukow: Design to nudge and change behaviour (17 min)
- Rob Hopkins: Inner change for emerging futures: From Imagination to Action (14:16 min)
Hållbar hälso- och sjukvård
- Closing the Gap: Adressing Gender Inequities in Healthcare (10:34 min) *
(För titlar märkta med en asterisk * finns instuderingsfråga eller annan lärandeaktivitet)
- A-kursen (podcast av Emma Frans), avsnitt 84. Stekhet planet, ljummet intresse (med Victor Galaz från Sthlm Resilience Center)
- Kortare arbetstid innebär lägre BNP - men kan ge andra samhällsvinster
- Folkhälsomyndigheten Webbinarium: Klimatförändringen påverkar hälsan (Om Fohms Klimat- och sårbarhetsanalys)
- Rutger Bregman: Humankind – A hopeful history (Podcast 1 h 11 min)
- Daniel Kahneman on Thinking, Fast and Slow (Intervju, 27 min)
- How loss of biodiversity threatens human health (6 min)
- Paneldiskussion: How to save the planet: Degrowth vs Green Growth? (1 tim 33 min)
- Roland Paulsen: Basinkomst, är det möjligt? (Intervju, 22:19 min)
- Freakonomics radio: Trust Me (Rebroadcast 30 min)
- Dagens Eko: Så leder värmeböljor till att barn föds för tidigt
Här finns länkar till andra sidor där du kan hitta mer material.
- Centre for Sustainable Healthcare har ett nätverk som heter Education for Sustainable Healthcare, där kan du hitta mycket bra material att använda i undervisning
- GreenComp The European sustainability competence framework
- Inner Devlopment Goals Teaching Toolbox for Societal Transitions (with learning activities)
- APA (American Psychological Association) Teaching to Change the World: United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
- Public Health Education Toolkit on Climate Change and Health (finns som PDF här)
- Teaching Psychology for Sustainability
- KTH Verktygslådan - lärande för hållbar utveckling
- SDG Academy
- Cork University: SDG Toolkit for Teaching and Learning
- Advancing Sustainability Education
- You Have a Part to Play Toolkit
- Planetary Health Alliance
- Climate Resources for Health Education
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