This course intends to offer an interdisciplinary exploration and innovative problem solving opportunity for students to co-work as a team to address the sustainability policy and management challenges. Groups of students, drawing on knowledge acquired in the programme and advised by a supervisor, will be challenged to identify a sustainability challenge in developing countries (e.g. Asian countries) and develop an argument as to whether a new policy approach could be effected. The learning task is not meant to reinforce the status quo. Students can devise new or revised approaches in this policy area or critique the policy intention, explaining how unequipped society is to execute the necessary changes.

The course will enable students to undertake an original piece of group research in sustainability policy and management. Each group will tackle a real-world problem, engaging with competing schools of thought and collecting primary research to substantiate their position. The project will strengthen the student's research portfolio, which may prove valuable in their job search and could be included in doctoral study applications. Students are motivated to think critically and reflect on both theoretical and practical questions arising from sustainability policy and management discipline.

Student will take advantage of Hong Kong's location and networks to closely follow the development of sustainability practices, governance, and emerging technologies that could drive the sustainability agenda in China and the wider Asian region, informed at the same time by larger global processes.