ORIENTATION
Week 0 – February 16-20
Thursday, February 19
Freshman fair
THEME I – INTRODUCTION TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND GLOBALIZATION
Week 1 - February 24-26
Tuesday, February 24, 11.00-12.30
Interaction Between Society and Environment – part I
Dr Ilda Mannino (TEN Center, Venice International University)
Required Readings: Book Ecological Economics, by Michael Common and Sigrid Stagl, Chapters 3-4.
Thusrday, February 26, 11.00-12.30
Interaction Between Society and Environment – part II
Dr Ilda Mannino (TEN Center, Venice International University)
Required Readings: Book Ecological Economics, by Michael Common and Sigrid Stagl, Chapter 5: 5.5.6.2, 5.4; Chapter 6: 6.1, 6.2, 6.3.6-6.6.3; Chapter 7.
Week 2 - March 3-5
Tuesday, March 3, 11.00-12.30
Introduction to Sustainable Development
Dr Ilda Mannino (TEN Center, Venice International University)
Required Readings: Book Ecological Economics, by Michael Common and Sigrid Stagl, Chapter 10.1; 10.4http://www.undp.org/mdg/; www.MAweb.org; http://www.uncsd2012.org/rio20/; http://www.uncsd2012.org/rio20/about.html
Thursday, March 5, 11.00-12.30
Globalization and Sustainable Development: Rio + 20 and After, Sustainable Development Goals
Dr Ilda Mannino (TEN Center, Venice International University)
Required Readings: http://www.undp.org/mdg/, www.MAweb.org, http://www.uncsd2012.org/rio20/, http://www.uncsd2012.org/rio20/about.html
https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/focussdgs.html, UN 2012, The future we want
Week 3 - March 10-12
Tuesday, March 10, 11.00-12.30
Sustainable Development in Practice: Discussion and Exercises in Class
Dr Ilda Mannino (TEN Center, Venice International University)
THEME II – SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT and GREEN ECONOMIC GROWTH IN a GLOBAL SCENARIO
Thursday, March 12, 11.00-12.30
A Fossil Fuel Based Global Economy
Prof. Ignazio Musu (Ca’ Foscari University and TEN Center, Venice International University)
Required Readings: M. Scott Taylor, J. Moreno Cruz, Back to the Future of Green Powered Economies, NBER WP 18236, 2012; IIASA, Global Energy Assessment, Cambridge University press, 2012, pp.108-116; R.Gordon, Is U. S. economic growth over? Faltering innovation confronts the six headwinds, NBER, WP 18315, August 2012.
Week 4 - March 17 – 19
Tuesday, March 17, 11.00-12.30
The Global Energy System: Energy Efficiency
Prof. Ignazio Musu (Ca’ Foscari University and TEN Center, Venice International University)
Required Reading: M. Grub, Planetary Economics, Routledge, 2013, chapters 3-5.
Thursday, March 19, 11.00-12.30
The Global Energy System: New Energy Sources
Prof. Ignazio Musu (Ca’ Foscari University and TEN Center, Venice International University)
Required Readings: International Energy Agency, World Economic Outlook, 2012 and 2013; D. Helm, The Carbon Crunch, Yale University Press, 2012, chapters 4-8.
Week 5 - March 24-26
Tuesday, March 24, 11.00-12.30
Market, Prices and Sustainable Development
Prof. Ignazio Musu (Ca’ Foscari University and TEN Center, Venice International University)
Required Reading: M. Common and S. Stagl Ecological Economics, Cambridge University Press, 2005, chapters 8,9 and 11.
Thursday, March 26, 11.00-12.30
Environmental Taxes and Cap and Trade Systems
Prof. Ignazio Musu (Ca’ Foscari University and TEN Center, Venice International University)
Required Reading: M. Grub, Planetary Economics, Routledge, 2013, chapters 6-8.
Week 6 - March 31- April 2
Tuesday, March 31, 11.00-12.30
Globalization and Green Growth
Prof. Ignazio Musu (Ca’ Foscari University and TEN Center, Venice International University)
Required Readings: World Bank, Inclusive Green Growth, 2011; I.Musu, On Greening Economic Growth: a critical survey, VIU, 2014.
Thursday, April 2, 11.00-12.30
Green Growth: Strategies and Policies
Prof. Ignazio Musu (Ca’ Foscari University and TEN Center, Venice International University)
Required Readings: D. Mazzucato, The Entrepreneurial State, Anthem Press, London, 2013. chapters 6 and 7; D.Rodrik, Green Industrial Policies, Grantham Research Institute project on “Green Growth and the New Industrial Revolution”, September 2013; I.Musu, On Greening Economic Growth: a critical survey, VIU, 2014.
MID-TERM EXAM – title and short outline of the essay and group paper is due by Friday 18
Midterm break April 6 - 10
Week 7 - April 14-16
Tuesday, April 14, 11.00-12.30
Economics of Climate Change: Analysis and Policy
Prof. Ignazio Musu (Ca’ Foscari University and TEN Center, Venice International University)
Required Readings: R.S.J. Tol, Climate Economics, Edward Elgar, 2014; W. Nordhaus, The Climate Casino, Yale University Press, 2013.
Thursday, April 16, 11.00-12.30
Economics of Climate Change: Scenarios
Prof. Ignazio Musu (Ca’ Foscari University and TEN Center, Venice International University)
Required Readings: International Energy Agency, World Economic Outlook, 2014; R.S.J. Tol, Climate Economics, Edward Elgar, 2014; W. Nordhaus, The Climate Casino, Yale University Press, 2013.
Week 8 - April 21-23
Tuesday, April 21, 11.00-12.30
A Case Study on Sustainable Development: China
Prof. Ignazio Musu (Ca’ Foscari University and TEN Center, Venice International University)
Required Reading: The World Bank, China 2030, 2012.
THEME III – GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES AND INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS
Thursday, April 23, 11.00-12.30
Introduction to International Law and the Environment: the Climate Change Regime
Dr. L. Massai (Catholic University of Lille)
Required Readings: IEL after Rio, Peter Sands; The future we want, RIO+20 UNCSD,
https://rio20.un.org/sites/rio20.un.org/files/a-conf.216l-1_english.pdf.pdf ; United Nation Framework Convention on Climate Change; Kyoto Protocol, unfccc.int
‘A Guide to the Climate Change Convention Process’, http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/publications/guideprocess-p.pdf
Week 9 - April 28-30
Tuesday, April 28, 11.00-12.30
Negotiating the 2015 Agreement: COP21/Paris final call?
Dr. L. Massai (Catholic University of Lille)
Required Readings:
‘Negotiators Handbook’ UNEP, http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/publications/negotiators_handbook.pdf;
The Long Way to the Copenhagen Accord, L. Massai, RECIEL 2010;
Copenhagen Accord, http://unfccc.int/meetings/copenhagen_dec_2009/items/5262.php;
Cancun Agreements, http://unfccc.int/essential_background/cancun_agreements/items/6132.php;
Durban outcomes, http://unfccc.int/essential_background/items/6825.php;
Doha Climate Gateway, http://unfccc.int/meetings/doha_nov_2012/meeting/6815.php#decisions
Warsaw decisions, http://unfccc.int/meetings/warsaw_nov_2013/meeting/7649.php#decisions
Lima Call for Climate Action
http://unfccc.int/files/meetings/lima_dec_2014/application/pdf/auv_cop20_lima_call_for_climate_action.pdf
THEME IV – THE ROLE OF CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY IN PROMOTING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Thursday, April 30, 11.00-12.30
Business Ethics and CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility)
Prof. Chiara Mio/M. Fasan (Ca’ Foscari University)
Required Reading: Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim (2010). "Drivers of Corporate Sustainability and Implications for Capital Markets: An International Perspective".
Week 10, May 5-7
Tuesday, May 5, 11.00-12.30
Measuring Environmental Costs AND Environmental Performances
Prof. Chiara Mio/M. Fasan (Ca’ Foscari University)
Required Readings: Peter Kenning (2008). "The Influence of General Trust and Specific Trust on Buying Behavior" , in International Journal of Retail & Distribution Management, Vol. 36 No. 6, 2008, pp. 461-476. Gray R. (2010). “Is accounting for sustainability actually accounting for sustainability and how would we know? An exploration of narratives of organizations and the planet”, in Accounting, Organizations and Society 35 (2010) 47–62.
THEME V – INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Thursday, May 7, 11.00-12.30
Introduction to Industrial Ecology and its Main Concepts
Dr Ilda Mannino (TEN Center, Venice International University)
Required Readings: Frosch R.A., Gallopoulos N. (1989). "Strategies for Manufacturing", Scientific American 9/89; pp 144-152; Lifset R. & Graedel T.E. (2002). Industrial ecology: goals and definitions in A handbook of industrial ecology, Robert U. Ayres, Leslie Ayres.
Week 11, May 12-14
Tuesday, May 12, 11.00-12.30
Globalized Patterns of Industrial Production and Life Cycle Assessment
Dr Ilda Mannino (TEN Center, Venice International University)
Required Readings: Arena A. P. (2001). “Spreading Life-Cycle Assessment to Developing Countries Lessons from Argentina”, Journal of Industrial Ecology, Vol. 4, n. 3; Lifset R. (1993). “Take it back: Extended Producer Responsibility as a Form of Incentive-Based Environmental Policy”, Journal of Resource Management and Technology, Vol. 21, n. 4. Jackson T. (2005).
Thursday, May 14, 11.00-12.30
Material Flow Analysis and Industrial Symbiosis
Dr Ilda Mannino (TEN Center, Venice International University)
Required Readings: Chertow M.R. (2000). "Industrial Symbiosis: Literature and Taxonomy", Annual Review of Energy and the Environment, 25, pp. 313-337; Ehrenfield J.R., Chertow M.R. (2002). "Industrial Symbiosis: The Legacy of Kalundborg", in A Handbook of Industrial Ecology, R.U. and Ayres L.W., Eds. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK; Tong X., Lifset R., Lindhqvist T. (2005). “Extended Producer Responsibility in China Where Is “Best Practice”?”, Journal of Industrial Ecology, Vol. 8, n. 4.
Week 12, May 19-21
Tuesday, May 19, 11.00-12.30
Sustainable Consumption
Dr Ilda Mannino (TEN Center, Venice International University)
Required Readings: “Live Better by Consuming Less? Is There a “Double Dividend” in Sustainable Consumption?”, Journal of Industrial Ecology, Vol. 9, n. 1–2; Hertwich E. G. (2005). “Consumption and the Rebound Effect An Industrial Ecology Perspective”, Journal of Industrial Ecology, Volume 9, Number 1–2; Lifset R. (2000). “Moving from Products to Services”, Journal of Industrial Ecology, Vol. 4, n. 1.
Thursday, May 21, 11.00-12.30
Industrial Ecology in Practice: Discussion and Exercises in Class
Dr Ilda Mannino (TEN Center, Venice International University)
Due: group Research paper by May 21
Week 13 – May 26 – 28
- Presentation of the research papers
Due: Individual essay by May 28.