(CHALLENGES OF) SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

INSTRUCTORS:

Dr Wlodzimierz Wojcik phone: 617-2260

TEXT BOOK:

Teaching materials developed for a Sustainable Baltic Region Course will be provided to the students

Weekly Topics

1. Course introduction. Definitions of sustainability. Societies and human ecology
2. Sustainability indexes
3. Material flows and geochemical cycles. Dematerialization and recycling
4. Energy and energy policy. From fossil fuels to biomass, and increased efficiencies
5. Sustainable water management
6. Sustainable agriculture and forestry. How we will feed ourselves in the long term.
7. Sustainable industry and production. Cleaner technologies, waste minimization.
8. Sustainable mobility.- car society, transportation and distribution of goods
9. Sustainable habitation &endash; urbanization and housing and regional infrastructure
10. The economics of sustainability.
11. Ethics and law &endash; rules for choosing the future
12. How to build the future &endash; the politics of sustainable development

FIELD TRIPS:

• Visit to a city for discausion of its sustainable development program
• Visit to a villigae to discuss of its sustainable development program

ALSO AN INTERNATIONAL DISCUSSION GROUP WILL BE ORGANIZED WITH THE STUDENTS FROM SCANDINAVIAN AND EASTERN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES (internet will be use for communications).

Topic for the project will be selected with the students

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last updated 6/8/98