The aims of the course – a student should be able to understand the relationships between human and natural systems, to identify threats that result from human activities for natural systems and threaten people’s wellbeing and ultimately the survival of people as such; to understand the basis and meaning of the concept of sustainable development, the possibilities of its measurement and the ways of its application in practice; to apply the principles of sustainability and sustainable development for relevant activities (projects, policies etc.) at every analytical level (organization, state, international community etc.); to compute Ecological Footprint and other Footprint Indicators and (more generally) to be able to quantify impacts of human systems on the environment.