Sustainable Development 2015 Mid-term Exam

Focus on: understanding key premises, concepts, theories

Multiple choice: 12%; 18 questions, approximately 3 for each topic covered mainly recognition and understanding of concepts discussed in lectures

(some reference to readings)

Short answer 18%; 6 topics; answer 1 of 2 questions in each topic. articulate understanding of concepts, use examples to clarify Most questions requires 3 strong points to be made for full marks. Each

point may require one clear logical sentence, or 2 or 3 sentences to elaborate and provide examples to ensure your point gets across. Examples always help.

Simple identifications/definitions only count for 0.5 points, thus the rest of question is 2.5 points.

Study guideSummary questions at the end of each power point provide a good indication

of what type of questions will be on the test. A new Environment ppt has been uploaded with summary questions.

Midterm Readings

Weeks 1&2 History and Interpretation

Overview in WCED (World Commission on Environment and Development) 1987 Our Common Future. United Nations. http://www.un-documents.net/wced-ocf.htm (Canvas)

Hopwood, Bob, Mary Mellor, Geoff O'Brien 2005. “Sustainable development: mapping different approaches,” Sustainable Development 13:38-52. (Canvas)

Processes and Principles

Sachs, J. 2015 Ch. 4 Why Some Countries Developed While Others Stayed Poor, in The Age of Sustainable Development (Canvas)

Week 3: Environment

Steffen et al., 2015 Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet, Science 347, 1259855 (Canvas)

Folke, C., Carpenter, S., Elmqvist, T., Gunderson, L., Holling, C.S., and Walker, B. Resilience and Sustainable Development: Building Adaptive Capacity in a World of Transformations Ambio 31:5 pp. 437-440. (Canvas)

Society Murphy, K. 2012 The social pillar of sustainable development: a

literature review and framework for policy analysis, Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy 8 pp. 15-29. (Canvas)

Dempsey N., Bramley, G., Power, S. and Brown, C. 2011 The Social Dimension of Sustainable Development: Defining Urban Social Sustainability, Sustainable Development 19, 289–300. (Canvas)

Week 4 Economics

Daly, H. 2005 Economics in a Full World Scientific American, September pp. 100-107. (Canvas)

Week 5 Technology

Chapter 4 “Industrial Ecology” in Graedel T.E. and B.R. Allenby (1999). Industrial Ecology 1st Edition. Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall. (Canvas)

Graedel T.E. and B.R. Allenby (2003). Industrial Ecology 2nd Edition. Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall. (RESERVE)