Currículo
Sustainability Sciences and Policy SSP-MIRS
Contextos
Groupo: Innovation and Research for Sustainability > 2º Ciclo > Parte Escolar > Unidades Curriculares Obrigatórias
ECTS
6.0 (para cálculo da média)
Objectivos
• Understand key socio-ecological challenges across multiple scales. • Integrate key environmental, social, governance and economic challenges in local, national and global action. • Understand what sustainability science is, its main characteristics, principles, and approaches, and its application in dealing with complex, uncertain, multi-scale and urgent problems. • Gain knowledge, skills and experience of the tools and approaches to integrated policy analysis and sustainability in organizations.
Programa
1. Sustainable Development: Framing Planetary Environmental and Social Challenges 2. Social, Governance & Economic Challenges: The Policy Dimension 3. Sustainability Science: Key Concepts and Issues 4. International & National Policy & Regulation 5. EU regulation: The Case Study of the European Green Deal 6. Sustainability in Organizations 7. Key Issues for Sustainability in Value Chains & Monitoring and Reporting 1 8. Monitoring and Reporting 2 9. Organizations: Problems, Solutions & Uncertainty 10. A critical play of the board game Daybreak 11. Student Presentations 12. Student Presentations
Método de Avaliação
1. Individual Assessment: A 60-minute test (10-15 questions, multiple-choice, short answer/short essay). Class 8 – 5th November. (40% of grade). 2. Group Assessment: Students will be divided into groups and asked to prepare a short (~10 page) report on a series of global issues and the policy/organizational responses to them. Reports will integrate theories, concepts and ideas gathered from previous classes and are expected to include relevant organizational case-studies. Submitted after final class. Each group participant must prepare a statement outlining their contribution to the group work. (60% of grade).
Carga Horária
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Trabalho Autónomo - 134.0
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Bibliografia
Principal
- Carroll's pyramid of CSR: taking another look: Carroll, A.B. 2016 Int J Corporate Soc Responsibility 1, 3
- Structuring sustainability science: Jerneck A, Olsson L, Ness B, Anderberg S, Baier M, Clark E, Hickler T, Hornborg A, Kronsell A, Lo¨vbrand E, Persson J. 2011 Sustainability Science 6:69?82.
- Sustainability Science: Kates RW, Clark WC, Corell R, Hall JM, Jaeger CC, Lowe I, McCarthy JJ, Schellnhuber HJ, Bolin B, Dickson NM, Faucheux S, Gallopin GC, Grübler A, Huntley B, Jäger J, Jodha NS, Kasperson RE, Mabogunje A, Matson P, Mooney H, Moore III B, O?Riordan T, Svedin U. 2001 American Association for the Advancement of Science, Science, New Series, 292(5517): 641-642.