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環境と開発
Development and the Environment
As evidenced by the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals in 2015, achieving a dual goal of economic development and environmental protection is widely recognized as one of the great global challenges of our time. This course aims to introduce the students to some of the major current debates around the issues of sustainable development and to conceptual frameworks for their understanding. Its primary focus is big questions (e.g., what is "sustainable development"?), but emphasis is placed on relevance to actual international policy discussions. The course lectures mostly draw on the frameworks of economics (development economics and environmental economics), but the discussions will touch on a broad range of aspects of sustainable development policies not limited to economic ones.
Questions the course will address include:
-- Despite various environmental problems it creates, why is development still seen as necessary?
-- What is "development" in the first place?
-- How do countries develop (or do not develop) economically?
-- How do the environmental conditions affect the economy and people's wellbeing, and conversely, how do the latter affect the environment?
-- How should environmental problems be addressed in lower-income countries where the needs for development are still present
-- How did the concept "sustainable development" emerge, and how is it adopted by international institutions?
Questions the course will address include:
-- Despite various environmental problems it creates, why is development still seen as necessary?
-- What is "development" in the first place?
-- How do countries develop (or do not develop) economically?
-- How do the environmental conditions affect the economy and people's wellbeing, and conversely, how do the latter affect the environment?
-- How should environmental problems be addressed in lower-income countries where the needs for development are still present
-- How did the concept "sustainable development" emerge, and how is it adopted by international institutions?
時間割／共通科目コード
コース名
教員
学期
時限
08D1416
FAS-DA4F16L3
環境と開発
成田 大樹
木曜1限
マイリストに追加
マイリストから削除
講義使用言語
英語
単位
2
実務経験のある教員による授業科目
NO
他学部履修
可
開講所属
教養学部
授業計画
- Please note that the first class on April 9 will be held in person, not online.
- The class period is 90 minutes. Students can individually ask questions to the instructor during the time window of 15 minutes after the core lecture period.
<Tentative of lecture topics>
1. What is development? Is it necessary?
2. Measuring economic growth and global inequality
3. Mechanisms of economic growth
4. Debates around development interventions
5. Conceptual basis of sustainable development
6. Natural capital
7. Development and climate change: basic concepts
<Example list of class discussion topics>
- Geography and development
- Can rich countries help poor countries' economic development?
- Emergence of the sustainable development concept
- Technology policy and sustainable development
- Livelihoods and the environment in local communities
- Urban pollution problems and development in Asia
- Development and climate change: practical issues
- Corporations and global sustainable development
授業の方法
Course instruction consists of two components, the lectures and the student presentations. The lectures will give the students the basics of some current major debates and conceptual frameworks regarding .The lecture classes may include a time of short class discussion. The second component is the student presentations and discussions, which will be organized as follows: First, a group of students is assigned to be presenters/moderators on each topic of class discussion. Upon the reading of assigned materials and consultation with the instructor, they decide the main issues and guiding questions for the class discussion and inform the other students about them well before the class. At the class, the students first give a presentation outlining the issues to be discussed and then moderate the class discussion. Later (by the end of the semester), each student in the group will submit a short paper (~2,000 words) on the topic they presented/moderated discussion for. The other students who have attended the sessions are required to submit a commentary on the discussion topic.
成績評価方法
Grading will be made based on student presentations and related short papers (50%) and participation in the classes and submission of assignment linked to each class (50%).
履修上の注意
Reflecting the student composition and interests as well as possible constraints due to the class format, details of the course plan could be adjusted throughout the semester.
その他
If you have any concerns regarding course participation, please contact me by email.
