ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book begins with an examination of how film and filmmaking can be used to facilitate learning about sustainability challenges and solutions. It introduces an exciting model of teaching collaborative filmmaking on the subject of the climate crisis. The book framed sustainability within the context of the United Nations’ Sustainability Development Goals or ‘Global Goals’. It argues that storytelling to teach sustainability needs to consider time as a two-way continuum, rather than as an inexorable conveyor belt to the future. The book recommends that courses in sustainability should assign relevant historical fiction and provide for classroom discussion and papers by students that analyse the sustainability issues in novels set in past eras. It proposes a definition of storytelling for sustainability and discusses implications of this understanding, critically appraising both opportunities and risks of using storytelling for sustainability in education and communication.
