SPR961 – Sustainable development

Module
Sustainable development
Sustainable development
Module number
SPR961
Version: 1
Faculty
Angewandte Sprachen und Interkulturelle Kommunikation
Level
Master
Duration
1 Semester
Semester
Winter semester
Module supervisor

Prof. Dr. Doris Fetscher
Doris.Fetscher(at)fh-zwickau.de
Lecturer(s)
Course language(s)

English
in "Sustainable development"
ECTS credits

4.00 credits

Workload

120 hours

Courses

2.00 SCH (2.00 SCH Lecture with integrated exercise / seminar-lecture)
Self-study time

90.00 hours
90.00 hours Selbststudium / Übungsaufgaben - Sustainable development
Pre-examination(s)
None
Examination(s)

mündliche Prüfungsleistung
Module examination | Examination time: 20 min | Weighting: 50%
in "Sustainable development"

schriftliche Prüfungsleistung
Module examination | Examination time: 90 min | Weighting: 50%
in "Sustainable development"
Media type
No information
Instruction content/structure
  1. Economic and ecological way of thinking -comparison
  2. Ecological crises and economic reaction
  3. Our Common Future- main principles of SD
  4. Summit of the Earth Rio de Janeiro;
  5. Summit in Johannesburg
  6. Green growth and de growth
  7. Indicators of Sustainable Development as  an alternative to HDP
  8. Application of ecological principles in policy-making;
  9. Environmental policy - Global, EU, Czech republic scale;
  10. Methods of valuing landscape as a part of projects documentation
  11. Valuation of nature-practical case studies
  12. Cost benefit analyses with environmental dimension

Economic instruments for environmental protection
Qualification objectives

The aim of the course is to show sustainable development as a dynamic principle with impact on multiple human activities in the frame of regional development. Graduate should understand the construction of sustainable development principle and should be able to recognize strong and weak form of sustainability.  The course will be also aimed on indicators of sustainable development and sustainable development principle as a part of economic and political decision-making as a philosophical background for green economy.

This course will prepare students for understanding of environmental impact of economic decisions on regional level. In other words to educate special managers who are able to take into account the broader than socio economic conditions of their work. One of the purpose of this course is to help students understand the importance of environmental thinking and acting both in regional or business management. Using case studies and concepts from different projects the students will be acquainted with different approaches in different member states.
Special admission requirements

none
Recommended prerequisites

Knowledge of basic microeconomics and macroeconomics
Continuation options
No information
Literature

BLEWITT, J. 2014. Understanding Sustainable Development. London, New York: Routledge, 2nd edition. 406 s.  ISBN 978-0415707824

Brown, P. G., Garver, G. 2009. Right relationship: building a whole earth economy. San Francisco, CA: Berrett-Koehler Publishers. 216 s. ISBN 978-1576757628

HEINBERG, R. 2011. The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality. Gabriola Island, Canada: New Society Publishers. 336 s. ISBN 978-0865716957

HESS , P. N. 2013. Economic Growth and Sustainable Development (Routledge Textbooks in Environmental and Agricultural Economics). London, New York: Routledge; 1 edition. 536 s. ISBN 978-0415679497

OLIVER F. WILLIAMS, O. F. 2014. Sustainable Development: The UN Millennium Development Goals, the UN Global Compact, and the Common Good (ND Houck Series Business Ethics).  Flanner Hall, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1st edition. 424 s. ISBN 978-0268044299

STIGLITZ, J.E.  2013. The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future. New York:  W. W. Norton & Company. 560 s., ISBN 978-0-393-34506-3

WEISMAN, A. 2008. The world without us.  New York, US: Picador;  Reprint edition. 432 s. ISBN 978-0312427900non
Notes
No information
Assignment to curriculum

759 Regionale und Europäische Projektentwicklung - Master 2015 Vollzeit

759 Regionale und Europäische Projektentwicklung - Master 2017 Vollzeit

759 Regionale und Europäische Projektentwicklung - Master 2021 Vollzeit

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