Environmental Management and Policy II

- The first class on April 9 will be held online. The Zoom access information will be provided by that date. - The class period is 90 minutes. Students can individually ask questions to the instructor during the time window of 15 minutes before the core lecture period starts. The students who wish to use that time are advised to notify the instructor beforehand by email. <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 <Tentative 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

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 rest of the classes are allocated to 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.

Grading will be made based on student presentations and related short papers (50%) and participation in the class discussions, including submission of commentaries on the discussions (50%).

No required textbooks for classes

*The following is only a selected list of references. A full list of references and suggested readings will be provided at classes. Acemoglu, A., and J.A. Robinson, 2012. Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty, London: Profile Books. Adams, W.M., 2019. Green Development (4th edition), London and New York: Routledge. Aghion, P., C. Antonin, and S. Bunel, 2021. The Power of Creative Destruction: Economic Upheaval and the Wealth of Nations, The Belknap Press. Amsden, A.H., 2001. The Rise of “the Rest”: Challenges to the West from Late-Industrializing Economies, Oxford University Press. Banerjee, A.V., and E. Duflo, 2011. Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty, PublicAffairs. Barro, R.J., and X. Sala-i-Martin, 2004, Economic Growth (Second Edition), The MIT Press. Dasgupta, P., 2001. Human Well-Being and the Natural Environment, Oxford University Press. Dasgupta, P., 2007. Economics: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press. Dasgupta, P., 2021. The Economics of Biodiversity: The Dasgupta Review, London: HM Treasury. Diamond, J., 1999. Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, W.W. Norton & Company. Diamond, J., 2005. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, New York: Viking. Dodds, F. et al., 2017. Negotiating the Sustainable Development Goals: A Transformational Agenda for an Insecure World, Earthscan. Easterly, W., 2001. The Elusive Quest for Growth, Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press. Galor, O., 2022. The Journey of Humanity: A History of Wealth and Inequality with Implications for Our Future, Dutton. Landes, D.S., 1998. The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor, W.W. Norton & Company. Lorenzini, S., 2019. Global Development: A Cold War History, Princeton University Press. Maddison, A., 2007. The World Economy, Paris: OECD. Milanovic, B. 2016. Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization, The Belknap Press. Ostrom, E., Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action, Cambridge University Press, 1990. Piketty, T., 2014. Capital in the Twenty-First Century. The Belknap Press. Ravallion, M., 2016. The Economics of Poverty: History, Measurement and Policy, Oxford University Press. Rist, G., 2014. The History of Development: From Western Origins to Global Faith (4th Edition), Zed Books. Rodrik, D., 2011. The Globalization Paradox: Why Global Markets, States, and Democracy Can’t Coexist, Oxford University Press. Sen, A., 1999. Development as Freedom, New York: Anchor Book. Stiglitz, J., A. Sen, and J.-P. Fitoussi, 2009. Report by the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress. Todaro, M.P., and S.C. Smith, 2015. Economic Development (12th Edition), Pearson. World Bank, 1993. The East Asian Miracle: Economic Growth and Public Policy, Oxford University Press. World Commission on Environment and Development, 1987. Our Common Future, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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.

If you have any concerns regarding course participation, please contact me by email.