POLICIES FOR SUSTAINABILITY AND THE INTEGRAL DEVELOPMENT
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- Versione italiana
- Academic year
- 2022/2023
- Teacher
- GIANFRANCO FRANZ
- Credits
- 7
- Curriculum
- Green economy and sustainability
- Didactic period
- Primo Semestre
- SSD
- ICAR/20
Training objectives
- TRAINING OBJECTIVES
This is a multi-objective and pluriverse course aimed to face sustainability in a wide sense:
1 - Students are introduced to 4 fundamental topics and purposes of environmental, social, cultural and economic sustainability. Discussing whitin the class is warmly recommended.
2 - Historical and theoretical path of the concept of Sustainable Development are retraced, from the pioneering contributions to the so-called Ecological Thought.
3 - The most recent concepts and tools to measure the general unsustainability of the social and economic social organization are introduced and discussed: Anthropocene, Planetary Boundaries, Multiple footprints, etc..
4 - The role of the city in the human history and challenges for its sustainability are highlighted, giving particular attention to specific arguments as the relevance of social and cultural heritage, ecosystem services, forms and role of the smart and creative city, intertwining these topics with recent concepts and practices for the circular city. Prerequisites
- PREREQUISITES
Being ready to practice a critical thinking approach with respect to mainstream thinking and economic ideologies.
A strong sense of humor is required because some judgments, considerations, evaluations and provocations of the teacher may appear politically incorrect. Course programme
- COURSE CONTENTS
The course is developed as a flow of interconnected issues.
At first, students may not find landmarks. The coherence of the mosaic will take shape halfway through the course.
Lessons are organized in several episodes, following a narrative flow from the general to the particular around the following topics and themes:
1 - History and critique of the Sustainable Development, from the "Beautiful Minds" of the Ecological Thought to the 17 SDGs.
2 - Anthropocene, Planetary Boundaries and Multiple Footprints;
3 - Global Warming, Climate Change and Adaptation;
4 - Cities, Regions and Territories in the history of human civilization;
5 - Policies for sustainability;
6 - Notions and case studies of Local Development;
7 - Notions and case studies of Smart and Creative cities;
8 - The circular city. Didactic methods
- DIDACTIC METHODS
1 - Lessons in presence. Lessons will be recorded and delivered at the end of the course throughout the specific Google Classroom.
2 - 50% of the final mark is constituted by the evaluation of the Exercise. Each student must select a specific topic among the several listed. Topics will be presented in the middle of the course and numerous papers or operational documents will be made available to students. Students are requested to write a critical paper of at least 6,000 characters, including spaces and notes and to present it during a public seminar at the end of the course. Students who are planning to give the exam in June-July or September 2022 are not requested to submit and present the paper at the end of the course. They will present it during the final exam, that will be longer than during the January-February session.
The teacher will provide a template and all practical information useful for carrying out the paper. Learning assessment procedures
- LEARNING ASSESSMENTE PROCEDURES
Oral exam.
The objective of the exam is to verify the achievement of the previously indicated training objectives. The exam is an interview of about 10 and 15 minutes. Students will choyce a favorite argument starting the discussion from it. The teacher maight ask some questions on other topics covered during the course and on the readings made by the students.
The final mark will be the algebraic sum between the exercise evaluation and the oral exam one. Reference texts
- BASIC BIBLIOGRAPHY
1 - FOR ITALIAN STUDENTS:
Gianfranco Franz, L'Umanità a un bivio. Il dilemma della sostenibilità a trent'anni da Rio de Janeiro, Milano, Mimesis Edizioni, 2022.
Kate Raworth, Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist, Business Book, 2017.
2 - FOR FOREIGN STUDENTS
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.
