POLICIES FOR SUSTAINABILITY AND LOCAL DEVELOPMENT
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- Versione italiana
- Academic year
- 2018/2019
- Teacher
- GIANFRANCO FRANZ
- Credits
- 7
- Curriculum
- Green economy and sustainability
- Didactic period
- Primo Semestre
- SSD
- ICAR/20
Training objectives
- The aim of the course is to study and discuss several public policies for sustainability and local development, with a specific focus on urban and regional dimension, to the issues of adaptation and mitigation of impacts and costs due to climate change.
Concepts and practices of sustainability, resilience and adaptability, smart city, creative city will be described during the course. Prerequisites
- Being smart and with a great sense of humor because some judgments, considerations and evaluations of the teacher may appear politically incorrect.
Course programme
- The course is developed as a flow of interconnected issues, from the city's role in human civilization and history, to reach the role of urbanization in the process of global warming on the planet that is contributing to climate change.
The course addresses the different arguments in blocks of 6/8 hours of classes and lectures.
City / Region / Sustainability and Resilience / Urban policies and Policies for the Sustainability / Global Warming, Climate Change, Adaptability / Smart City and Creative City Didactic methods
- Lectures and seminars in classroom
Learning assessment procedures
- Oral examination.
The aim of the examination is to verify the achievement of the previously mentioned educational goals.
The examination process includes an interview of at least half an hour with questions on the topics covered during the course and on favorite readings Reference texts
- Jared Diamond, " Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive", Viking Press, 2005.
Kate Raworth, "Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist", Business Book, 2017.
Other readings will be provided during classes.
