12 Best Sustainable Development Courses on Coursera
We compared 12 Sustainable Development courses currently listed on Coursera, priced from $49.00 to $49.00. 7 come from a named university or institution, including University of Michigan, Duke University and Eawag. They are ordered by our CourseAsk score, which is built from how thoroughly each course describes what it teaches, whether it comes from a named institution, and how it compares on price — not from star ratings, which our course data does not include.
- Courses compared
- 12
- Price range
- $49.00 – $49.00
- Providers
- Coursera
- Last updated
- 30 Aug 2026
How these 12 courses were chosen
Every course below is a real, currently listed course from Coursera, matched to "sustainable development" by our catalog and ordered by our CourseAsk score. Courses whose own title names the topic rank above those only tagged with it.
There are no star ratings on this page — the course feeds we license do not include them, and we would rather leave a column out than fill it with a number we cannot stand behind. What we do have is price: these range from $49.00 to $49.00, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.
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Conservation and Sustainable Development
Offered by University of Michigan
Protecting biodiversity and supporting local and Indigenous people are too often treated as competing goals. In "Conservation and Sustainable Development," you'll explore where those goals conflict, overlap, and evolve t...
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Beyond the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Addressing Sustainability and Development
Offered by University of Michigan
We’re excited you’re here! This course, “Beyond the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Addressing Sustainability and Development,” is the first course in the Sustainability and Development MasterTrack® Certificate, bu...
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Climate Solutions
Offered by University of Michigan
Our world is changing fast, and the challenges we face—like climate change and protecting nature—are all connected. Climate Solutions traces that connection across three courses: from protecting biodiversity while suppor...
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Impact Measurement & Management for the SDGs
Offered by Duke University
How can businesses and investors help fill the multi-trillion-dollar gap needed for sustainable development? Simply put: by incorporating sustainability and social impact factors on people and planet into management deci...
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Planning & Design of Sanitation Systems and Technologies
Offered by Eawag
Do you want to learn how to plan affordable and context-specific sanitation solutions? Be up-to-date on the newest developments in urban sanitation planning and programming? Get to know best practice examples of urban sa...
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Greening the Economy: Lessons from Scandinavia
Offered by Lund University
How can we live a good life on one planet with over seven billion people? This course will explore greening the economy on four levels – individual, business, city, and nation. We will look at the relationships between t...
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Environmental Studies
Offered by Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani
Master comprehensive environmental knowledge from Earth's ecosystems to sustainable solutions. This course equips you to understand the environmental crisis, analyze biodiversity loss, climate change, and resource deplet...
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Sustainable Neighborhoods
Offered by Johns Hopkins University
This course will provide students with an introduction to tools and concepts for a better understanding of the importance of the neighborhood as part of a sustainable city. This will include a careful look at the natural...
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Urban Nature: Connecting Cities, Sustainability and Innovation
Offered by Lund University
How can we work with nature to design and build our cities? This course explores urban nature and nature-based solutions in cities in Europe and around the world. We connect together the key themes of cities, nature, sus...
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Management of International Development: Towards Agenda 2030
Offered by Bocconi University
Welcome! This course provides participants with the opportunity to explore the multifaceted concept of international development in order to be able to interpret and lead its challenges, opportunities and constant evolut...
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Climate Adaptation and Human Rights
Offered by Lund University
Welcome to our Climate Adaptation and Human Rights MOOC. This course will be of interest to professionals and students engaged with social and governance issues relating to climate change adaptation. Government officials...
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Coursera MOOC / Non-creditA Circular Economy of Metals: Towards a Sustainable Societal Metabolism
Offered by Universiteit Leiden
Metals are present everywhere around us and are one of the major materials upon which our economies are built. Economic development is deeply coupled with the use of metals. During the 20th century, the variety of metal...
$49.00listed price
Best Sustainable Development Courses on Coursera compared
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