SUSTAINABILITY 2: SUSTAINABILITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS

Secondo corso del percorso 'Sostenibilità' del programma di eccellenza del Collegio Internazionale Ca' Foscari.

OBIETTIVO GENERALE:
- fornire agli studenti strumenti e stimoli per analizzare criticamente la politica e le politiche ambientali e per affrontare con attenzione i diversi aspetti della sostenibilità in modo da far possibilmente fronte alle varie sfide del ventunesimo secolo

Per gli OBIETTIVI SPECIFICI si veda la sezione originale in lingua inglese.

Aver completato con successo il corso SUS 1 'Sustainability'.

LECTURES
- Course introduction + preliminary approach to environmental issues
- Environment and institutions: politics, indicators, and actors
- Systems thinking, sustainability, and environmental cultures
- Environment and science: political ecology
- Environment and society: environmental movements
- Environmental action between the personal and the policy level
- The manifold environmental narratives
- Environmental politics today: mainstream institutional and corporate plans, and bottom-up alternatives to them

OTHER
- Lectures and seminars by local, national, and international guests
- Student assignment reporting and discussion; case-based work

Polanyi (1944), The Great Transformation.
Commoner (1971), The Closing Circle: Nature, Man, and Technology.
Meadows (2008), Thinking in Systems: A Primer.
Odum (2007). Environment, Power and Society for the Twenty-first Century.
Raworth (2018), Doughnut economics.
Kothari et al. (2018), Pluriverse.
Ferdinand (2021), A Decolonial Ecology.
Huxley (1962), Island.
Moore (2016), Capitalocene.
Iovino (2016), Ecocriticism and Italy.

Both ongoing and final evaluation.

GRADING WEIGHTS
20% written assignments
20% assignment oral presentation
20% overall active engagement in lectures, seminars, and revisions
40% final paper, related discussion, oral answers to general questions

GRADING CRITERIA
appropriate use of course tools and vocabulary
enthusiasm, originality, and critical approach
clarity of presentation in both written and oral forms
coherence in analysis, critical discussion, and synthesis
appropriateness in answering questions and in asking new ones
willingness and ability to valorise received stimuli and to offer new ones

Lectures; interactive seminars; interactive keynote guest lectures; participatory learning (and teaching); mixed inductive/deductive approach; case-based foci; assignments, reading, writing, and reporting; group discussion

scritto e orale

Questo insegnamento tratta argomenti connessi alla macroarea "Cooperazione internazionale" e concorre alla realizzazione dei relativi obiettivi ONU dell'Agenda 2030 per lo Sviluppo Sostenibile