Learning to Account for Nature: Teaching Biodiversity at a Business School

This chapter presents how Permahaven, a permaculture garden at Copenhagen Business School, has been used as a case for teaching sustainability and biodiversity to accounting students. By creating a tangible opportunity for students to engage with nature, the presented case offers a novel approach to business education, suggesting that an engagement with nature can be a valuable way of integrating SDG aspects in business schools. Such an approach builds on the existing concepts of political ecotone and boundary object, which we combine to suggest the concept of a political object, in this case, a garden as a place to explore and elaborate on the intersection of diverse systems, the adaptation and resilience of such spaces combined with an educational and transformative potential.