1. SylabUZ
2. Faculty of Legal and Economic Sciences
3. winter term 2023/2024
4. economics - Second-cycle studies leading to MS degree
5. Economics of sustainable development

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Economics of sustainable development - course description

Aim of the course

The aim of the course is to provide students with knowledge about sustainable development as a new paradigm in economics, and selected methods and instruments used to achieve the goals of sustainable development in social and economic life.

Prerequisites

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Scope

Lecture: Basics and essence of the concept of sustainable development. The necessity to reform traditional economics, environmental economics, and ecological economics - stages on the way to the economics of sustainable development. The main theses of the economics of sustainable development. Economic growth in the economy of sustainable development.

Practicals: Economy - society - environment - knowledge about the relationships and dependencies of these systems as the basis for sustainable development. From homo economicus to homo cooperativus - the basics of sustainable development ethics. Personal contribution to sustainable development activities (sustainable consumption). Traditional assumptions of economic policy and proposals of sustainable economic policy. Education for sustainable development - the basis for the implementation of the concept in the practice of social and economic life.

Teaching methods

Conventional lecture.

Practicals: classic problem method, discussion, group work, presentation, work with the source document.

Learning outcomes and methods of theirs verification

Outcome description	Outcome symbols	Methods of verification	The class form

Assignment conditions

Lecture:The student has to complete the lecture with a grade. The student has to answer 60 percent of the questions (descriptive or test questions) formulated in the passing test (K_W01, K_W4).

Classes: The student has to:

a) pass the test (descriptive or test questions; The student receives credit, if he gives at least 60% of correct answers (K_W01, K_W4),

b)  prepare the project and show a presentation  (K_U09, K_K02, K_K05),

c)  take part in discussions and group work during exercises (K_K02, K_K05).

The course grade will be the arithmetic average of the grades from the tutorials and the lecture, assuming that both grades are at least satisfactory.

 

Recommended reading

1.  Daly H.E., Beyond Growth, The Economics of Sustainable Development, http://pinguet.free.fr/daly1996.pdf

2. Goldin I.(Editor), Winters L.A. (Editor), The Economics of Sustainable Development, Cambridge University Press, 1995

3. Gupta N., Economics of sustainable development, IOSR Journal Of Humanities And Social Science (IOSR-JHSS) Volume 19, www.academia.edu/12038663/Economics_of_sustainable_development

4. Bruckmeier K., Economics and Sustainability, Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2019

5. Roorda N., Fundamentals of Sustainable Development, Routledge, 2020
6. Sharma R.R., Handbook of Sustainable Development, Business Expert Press, 2021

Further reading

1. Defining a New Economic Paradigm, The Report of the High-Level Meeting on Well-Being and Happiness Defining a New Economic Paradigm, 2  April 2012,  United Nations Headquarters, New York, https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/617BhutanReport_WEB_F.pdf
2. Mensah J., Sustainable development: Meaning, history, principles, pillars, and implications for human action: Literature review, Cogent Social Sciences 2019, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/23311886.2019.1653531?needAccess=true&role=button
3. The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2021. United Nations, online: https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/report/2021/The-Sustainable-Development-Goals-Report-2021.pdf
4. Walker J.,  Sustainable Development Goals: Harnessing Business to Achieve the SDGs Through Finance, Technology and Law Reform, Wiley, 2019

Notes

Modified by dr inż. Monika Michalska (last modification: 27-05-2023 23:58)