Systems Thinking for Sustainable Resource Management in Environmental Management Education

The sustainability challenge includes a need for new resources. Therefore it is important to show added resource values in sustainability assessments. At the university in Dalarna we use this view, and problem based learning on industrial projects, in environmental management courses. The experiences from those courses, and modelling at Chalmers, indicate how systems thinking can foster a concerted view on business development and environmental priorities. The change in student perceptions indicates that this project work, where the students engage in new mental models, provides a forum where the students can learn to learn.