The paradigm of sustainable development.
The need for radical innovation. Dynamics and processes of change
Main environmental issues: energy supply, food supply, waste management, water management, transportation
Sustainability as an opportunity. The green economy and green technologies. Individuals, firms and institution of the green economy. The existing businesses and the real projects of a sustainable economy. The Geography of Transition within developed and developing countries.english
Materials designed to prepare the course are provided on the web (moodle). Contact dott. Filippo Randelli to have access to the materials.
In addition to materials provided on moodle, ONLY students not attending the course are requested to study one of the following books:
1) Juliet Schor; Plenitude: The New Economics of True Wealth, Scribe Publications, 2010
2) Frank Geels, Renè Kemp, Geoff Dudley and Glenn Lyons (eds), Automobility in Transition? A socio-Techinacal analysis of sustainable, transport, Routledge, 2012
3) Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, Penguin, 2005
Obiettivi Formativi
The aim of this course is to provide students with tools to analyse – in an integrated manner – environmental aspects of economic, social and political development in developed and developing countries at both micro and macro levels. Economic expertise complemented with environmental analysis is increasingly appreciated by public and private sector organizations at local and international levels.
The course makes references to a wide range of concrete geographical contexts and scenarios at the national and international level, looking at territories as a whole as well as at single material, energy and environmental resources.
This course will enable students to systematically analyse environmental issues and to cooperate in the planning and decision making process implied by the sustainable development objectives of private and public agents in developed and developing countries
Prerequisiti
At least a course in Economic Geography, in Microeconomics and in Macro Economics (undergraduate level)
Metodi Didattici
Lessons in classroom: total hours 36
Seminaries: total hours 8
Field trip: total hours 4
Altre Informazioni
Detailed information are provided on the web page in the moodle platform.
Ask to the prof. Randelli the password to enter on moodle.
Modalità di verifica apprendimento
the exam will be oral
Programma del corso
Program of the course will provide:
• Reinterpretation of development in the light of environmental sustainability. The Evolution of social-economic thought; the industrial revolution (demographic, economic, ecological) and transition processes; new territory-environment relationships, the main environmental complaints, the paradigm of sustainable development.
• The emergence of environmental issues and the development of international policies for the environment. Not renewable and renewable resources; social supply and demand of the environment; the fallacies of the market and the principle "polluter pays"; global risks; the ecosystemic approach to economic organization; social tools to guide the environmental impact of production activities; assessment and environmental accounting.
• The great political and environmental issues. Energy resources and energy policies; air quality: the Montreal Protocol and the "hole" in the ozone, the Kyoto Protocol, climate change and emissions trading, and local quality indicators; water resources: physical, economic and political characteristics; biodiversity and GMOs; waste production, management, policies.
• Globalization and environmental governance. Environment and poverty, the risks of unsustainable social and environmental-related gaps in international development, international trade and the environment, the role of the WTO and the World Bank, global tourism; territorial levels of governance and sustainable development.
• Sustainability as an opportunity. The green economy and green technologies. Individuals, firms and institution of the green economy. The existing businesses and the real projects of a sustainable economy. The Geography of opportunity within developed and developing countries.