| Sustainable Development Curriculum | ||
| Do you need to build a completely new Sustainable Development course or integrate sustainability into an existing one? Our Sustainable Development course outline, developed with Earthscan author Professor Tim Jackson (University of Surrey, UK), can provide inspiration. To help you find the books you need, we have selected core texts and further reading, drawing on our entire list, for each of the nine modules. For downloads and background reading on sustainability education and rapid curriculum renewal for the low-carbon future, click here. | ||
 | Pre-course Reading Accessible, engaging books that present the challenges of the 21st century, and inspire solutions – includes books on personal transformation towards sustainability. | |
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 | Module 1 - Foundations & History The emergence of sustainable development; its formative ideas and roots in development and environment debates; key concepts and principles. Disciplines: history, politics, anthropology, development studies, economics | |
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 | Module 2 - Ecological Limits The system dynamics of a finite planet; basic thermodynamic and material laws and principles; resource scarcity and carrying capacities; climate change, biodiversity, land etc Disciplines: environmental science, geology, physics, ecology, biology | |
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 | Module 3 - Environmental Justice The problem of allocation in the context of limits; the concept of environmental space and environmental inequality; inter- and intra-generational justice; contraction and convergence Disciplines: ethics, political science, policy studies | |
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 | Module 4 - Sustainable Materials, Technology and Design The transformation of production process, infrastructures and systems; Concepts of resource efficiency, dematerialization, decoupling, clean or sustainable technologies, design for the environment, design for sustainability, industrial ecology, life cycle analysis, etc Disciplines: technology, management, design, materials, industrial ecology | |
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 | Module 5 - Consumption, Lifestyle & Communication Getting to grips with the complexity of consumption and lifestyle; understanding people's motivations, attitudes, values and behaviours; the dynamics of transition and social change Disciplines: sociology, psychology, anthropology, cultural studies | |
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 | Module 6 - The Economics of Sustainability Principles of environmental and ecological economics; the problem of externalities, hidden costs and perverse subsidies; growth and the environment; explorations of new economic thought Disciplines: economics, policy studies | |
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 | Module 7 - Governance for Sustainability Basic framing of the problem of governing common pool resources; history of governance, the social contract, 'governmentality'; policy responses to sustainability Disciplines: political science | |
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 | Module 8 - The Good Life, Development & Wellbeing Wellbeing, quality of life and sustainability; sustainability as capabilities for flourishing within ecological limits; philosophical and ethical dimensions of sustainable development Disciplines: development studies, philosophy, anthropology, sociology, political science | |
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 | Module 9 - Measuring Sustainability Sustainability indicators, research methods and reporting, tools, statistics and accounting Disciplines: sustainability and inter-disciplinary research in any subjects | |
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Monday, June 13, 2011
Sustainable Development Curriculum
