*课程简介（Description） | （英文）Sustainable Development is the key policy concept of the contemporary world, both in academic and policy circles. The world has entered the new geological era of Anthropocene, that is, we, as human beings, change the structure of Earth and its climate to an extent that it warrants a new geological era. This comes with the depletion of resources, growing climate instabilities, demographic changes of unprecedented scale and the social inequality. Environment and sustainable development is one of the dominant economic, environmental and social issues for the human being society. This course will develop the concepts of sustainable environmental management on the basis that it is an evolutionary process, not easily captured by a simple definition. The course uses multidisciplinary theories and methods to expound the relationship, connotation and principles between environment and sustainable development, the issues associated with sustainable development, the economic development mode of sustainable development. This course will give the students the key concepts to discuss sustainable development and environment: the social, the environmental, and the economic. We will introduce the basic definition of environment and sustainable development firstly. Then we will deal with the global trends and the changing conditions of our lives and habitats. This would cover the population explosion, urbanization, the situation with energy, water, food and agriculture and globalization more generally. We will talk about various actors involved in efforts towards sustainable development, such as the governments, non-state actors, sustainable communities and the private sector. We are interested in what these various actors can do (and have done) to shift humanity on the course towards sustainability. We will discuss the different sustainable ways in our human being society, from pollutants conctrol, the sustainable development methods and the potential solutions. We will also talk about what we can do, as individuals and communities, to encourage a more sustainable future. The course pays attention to inspire and train students’ ability of thinking, analysing, cooperating, etc. The purpose is to make students understand the necessity of the whole world will be from the industrial civilization development model to the modern ecological civilization. |
*学习目标 (Learning Outcomes) | 1．了解现今环境的问题以及可持续发展概念的由来 2 以环境领域为例，阐明可持续发展的含义以及相关作用 3．掌握LCA在环境影响，可持续发展中的工具作用。 4. 培养协作精神和多角度思考问题能力。 1. Students will understand the key environment problems in the work and the concept of sustainable development. 2. Examples of environment pollutant controls will be introduced to explain the sustainable development concept. 3. LCA tools will be introduced to assess the sustainable development 4. Students will be able to identify and discuss in detail the key empirical issues on sustainable development. |
*教材或参考资料(Textbooks & Other Materials) | 《环境资源与可持续发展通论》，刘书俊编，上海交通大学影印教材 Michael Palocz-Andresen. Róbert Németh, Dóra Szalay. Támop-Humboldt Colleg for Environment and Climate Protection. University of West Hungary press. 2010 Palocz-Andresen, Michael. Decreasing Fuel Consumption and Exhaust Gas Emissions in Transportation. Springer. 2013 柴晓利, 楼紫阳编，固体废物处理处置工程技术与实践,化工出版社,2009,北京，ISBN:712204745(36.7万字) |
