Type of Credit: Partially Required
Credit(s)
Number of Students
This course has a concern with the concept of sustainable development, more than thirsty years on from the influential Brundtland Report (1987), and its applications for the conduct of public policy. By reflecting within the discussions on what sustainable development is, why it is advocated, who is responsible for it, how it can be achieved, and how it can be measure, the aim of this course is to provide ample demonstration of these. Many of these conversations stem from a shared concern about the development paths that both developed and developing countries are on. As the world’s development paths indeed reflect complex interactions between different intellectual disciplines and policy foci, mapping out the structure of this course is of multidiscipline and interdiscipline, mostly among Political Science, Economics, and Sociology. This course, therefore, attempts to offer a comprehensive, but accessible, portrait of the sustainable development literature, in which students from different disciplinary and work backgrounds can find of interest.
能力項目說明
After successful completing this course, students should be able: (1) to provide building-blocks of both knowledge and theory about the challenges of applying sustainable development into realty, especially the governments, market/business, and social systems, in/by which the challenges are set; (2) to learn how to interpret sustainable development as opportunities in different backgrounds – whether nationality, ethnicity, gender, education, work, age, culture, or communication. That is, to learn how the same concept may have different meanings in sustainable development, and to learn how to find the clues needed for practical translation between these differences for better environmental/social/economic governance.
| 教學週次Course Week | 彈性補充教學週次Flexible Supplemental Instruction Week | 彈性補充教學類別Flexible Supplemental Instruction Type |
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Week 1 – 9/09 – Class Topic I: Course Introduction: discussion of course aims and content
Class Topic II: Moodle Introduction
Class Topic III: Assignment of weekly reading rotation
Week 2– 9/16 – Class Topic: Development and Environment in/for Sustainable Development
Required reading:
O’Brien, Robert, and Marc Williams, Global Political Economy: Evolution and Dynamics (New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, 2nd Edition), Chapters 10, 292-331. （）
Stevis, Dimitris, “The Trajectory of the Study of International Environmental Politics,” in Michele M. Betsill, Kathryn Hochstetler, and Dimitris Stevis, eds., International Environmental Politics (New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), 13-53. （）
Lin, Scott Y., “An Asian Way to Safeguard Food Security—Transnational Farmland Investment,” Asian Perspective, Vol. 41, No. 3 (September 2017), 481-518.（）
Week 3 – 9/23 – Class Topic: General Concept, Standards, and Evolution of Sustainable Development (for MDGs)
Required reading:
Strange, Tracey, and Anne Bayley, Sustainable Development: Linking Economy, Society, Environment (Paris: OECD Publishing, 2008), Chapters 2-5, 20-97.（）
Pezzoli, Keith, “Sustainable Development: A Transdisciplinary Overview of the Literature,” Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, Vol. 40, No. 5 (September 1997), 549-574. （）
Halkos, George, and Stylianos Nomikos, “Corporate Social Responsibility: Trends in Global Reporting Initiative Standards,” Economic Analysis and Policy, No. 69 (2021), 106-117. （）
Week 4 – 9/30 – Class Topic: Sustainability and Social Sciences
Required reading:
Becker, Egon, Thomas Jahn, and Immanuel Stiess, “Exploring Uncommon Ground: Sustainability and the Social Sciences,” in Egon Becker and Thomas Jahn, eds., Sustainability and The Social Sciences: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach To Integrating Environmental Considerations Into Theoretical Reorientation (London: Zed Books, 1999), 1-22. （）
Sachs, Ignacy, “Social Sustainability and Whole Development: Exploring the Dimensions of Sustainable Development,” in Egon Becker and Thomas Jahn, eds., Sustainability and The Social Sciences: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach To Integrating Environmental Considerations Into Theoretical Reorientation (London: Zed Books, 1999), 23-36.（）
Reboratti, Carlos E., “Territory, Scale and Sustainable Development,” in Egon Becker and Thomas Jahn, eds., Sustainability and The Social Sciences: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach To Integrating Environmental Considerations Into Theoretical Reorientation (London: Zed Books, 1999), 207-222. （）
Week 5 – 10/07 – Class Topic: Sustainability and Environment—Environmental Governance
Required reading:
Ostrom, Elinor, Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action (NY: Cambridge University Press, 1999), Chapters 1 & 2, 1-28 & 29-57. （Ch1 （）； + Ch2 （） ）
Beck, Ulrich, “Reflexive Governance: Politics in the Global Risk Society,” in Jan-Peter Voß, Dierk Bauknecht, and René Kemp eds., Reflexive Governance for Sustainable Development (Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2006), 31-56.（ ）
Week 6 – 10/14 – Class Topic: Sustainability and Environment (for SDGs)—Challenges and Goals (1)
Required reading:
Sachs, Jeffrey D., The Age of Sustainable Development (NY: Columbia University Press, 2015), 1-250. （有中文版本，永續發展新紀元，16-230）.（Ch1-2（）； Ch3-5（）；Ch6-7（） ）
Week 7 – 10/21 – Class Topic: Sustainability and Environment (for SDGs)—Challenges and Goals
Required reading:
Sachs, Jeffrey D., The Age of Sustainable Development (NY: Columbia University Press, 2015), 251-511. （有中文版本，永續發展新紀元， 231-464）. （Ch8-10（）； Ch11-12（）；Ch13-14（） ）
Week 8 – 10/28 – Class Topic: Sustainability and Environment—Climate Change
Required reading:
Kinley, Richard, “Climate Change after Paris: from Turning Point to Transformation,” Climate Policy, Vol. 17, Issue 1 (February 2016), 9-15. （）
Höhne, Niklas, Takeshi Kuramochi, Carsten Warnecke, Frauke Röser, Hanna Fekete, Markus Hagemann, Thomas Day, Ritika Tewari, Marie Kurdziel, Sebastian Sterl, and Sofia Gonzales, “The Paris Agreement: Resolving the Inconsistency between Global Goals and National Contributions,” Climate Policy, Vol. 17, Issue 1 (February 2016), 16-32. （）
Morgan, Jamie, “Paris COP 21: Power that Speaks the Truth?” Globalizations, Vol. 19, Issue 6 (December 2016), 943-951. （）
Lomborg, Bjorn, “Impact of Current Climate Proposals,” Global Policy, Vol. 7, Issue 1 (February 2016), 109-118. （）
Week 9 – 11/04 – Class Topic: No Class (Midterm Exam)
One-page introduction statement of your term paper project
Submission of your term paper proposal due by 11:59PM of Friday, 11/01, 2024.
Week 10 – 11/11 – Class Topic: Sustainability and Economics—Consumption
Required reading:
Princen, Thomas, “The Shading and Distancing of Commerce: When Internalization is not Enough,” Ecological Economics, Vol. 20, No. 3 (March 1997), 235-253.（）
Princen, Thomas, “Consumption and Its Externalities: Where Economy Meets Ecology,” Global Environmental Politics, Vol. 1, No. 3 (August 2001), 11-30. （）
Conca, Ken, “Consumption and Environment in a Global Economy,” Global Environmental Politics, Vol. 1, No. 3 (August 2001), 53-71. （）
Week 11 – 11/18 – Class Topic: Sustainability and Economics—Eco-Development
Required reading:
Redclift, Michael, “Sustainable Development (1987–2005): An Oxymoron Comes of Age,” Sustainable Development, Vol. 13, No. 4 (October 2005), 212-227.（）
Dingwerth, Klaus, and Margot Eichinger, “Tamed Transparency: How Information Disclosure under the Global Reporting Initiative Fails to Empower,” Global Environmental Politics, Vol. 10, No. 3 (August 2010), 74-96（）
van den Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M., “Sustainable Development in Ecological Economics,” in Giles Atkinson, Simon Dietz, and Eric Neumayer, eds., Handbook of Sustainable Development (Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2007), 63-77. （）
Week 12 – 11/25 – Class Topic: Sustainability and Politics—Domestic Politics
Required reading:
Lin, Scott Y., “Localization of the Corporate Food Regime and the Food Sovereignty Movement: Taiwan’s Food Sovereignty Movement under ‘Third Regionalism’,” Food, Culture & Society, (2022) advance on-line publication: https://doi.org/10.1080/15528014.2022.2030889. （）
Kemp, Rene, Saeed Parto, and Robert B. Gibson, “Governance for Sustainable Development: Moving from Theory to Practice,” International Journal of Sustainable Development, Vol. 8, No. 1/2 (2005), 12-30. （）
While, Aidan, Andrew E. G. Jonas, and David Gibbs, “From Sustainable Development to Carbon Control: Eco-state Restructuring and the Politics of Urban and Regional Development,” Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Vol. 35, No. 1 (January 2010), 76-93. （）
Week 13 – 12/02 – Class Topic: Sustainability and Politics—Global Governance
Required reading:
Biermann, Frank, “Global Governance and the Environment,” in Michele M. Betsill, Kathryn Hochstetler, and Dimitris Stevis, eds., International Environmental Politics (New York: Palgrave Macmillan Ltd., 2006), 237-261. （）
Vogler, John, “The International Politics of Sustainable Development,” in Giles Atkinson, Simon Dietz, and Eric Neumayer Cheltenham eds., Handbook of Sustainable Development (Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2007), 430-446. （）
Lin, Scott Y., “Transnational Farmland Acquisition in the International Political Economy: Towards a Better Understanding of Theory, Approach, and Governance,” Global Change, Peace & Security, Vol. 29, No. 3 (October 2017), 273-292.（）
Week 14 – 12/09 – Class Topic: Sustainability and Sociology—Social Sustainability
Required reading:
Colantonio, Andrea, “Social Sustainability: Exploring the Linkages Between Research, Policy and Practice,” in Carlo C. Jaeger, J. David Tàbara, and Julia Jaeger, eds., European Research on Sustainable Development: Volume 1: Transformative Science Approaches for Sustainability (Berlin: Springer, 2011), 35-57. （）
Agyeman, Julian, “Environmental Justice and Sustainability,” in Giles Atkinson, Simon Dietz, and Eric Neumayer, eds., Handbook of Sustainable Development (Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2007), 171-188. （）
Adger, W. Neil, and Alexandra Winkels, “Vulnerability, Poverty and Sustaining Well-being,” in Giles Atkinson, Simon Dietz, and Eric Neumayer, eds., Handbook of Sustainable Development (Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2007), 189-204. （）
Week 15 – 12/16 – Class Topic: Sustainability and Sociology—Sustainable Community
Required reading:
Rydin, Yvonne, “Sustainable Cities and Local Sustainability,” in Giles Atkinson, Simon Dietz, and Eric Neumayer, eds., Handbook of Sustainable Development (Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2007), 347-361. （）
Tisdell, Clement A., “Sustainable Agriculture,” in Giles Atkinson, Simon Dietz, and Eric Neumayer, eds., Handbook of Sustainable Development (Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2007), 362-375. （）
Helleiner, Eric, “Think Globally, Transact Locally: Green Political Economy and the Local Currency Movement,” Global Society, Vol. 14, No. 1 (July 2000), 35-52. （）
Week 16 – 12/23 – Class Topic: Sustainable Development Forum—Green Regionalism
Required reading:
Hancock, Kathleen J., “Introduction to the Special Issue on Energy Regionalism,” Review of Policy Research, Vol. 41, No. 2 (March 2024), 282-289. （）
Johnson, Corey, and Stacy D. VanDeveer, “Energy Regionalisms in Theory and Practice,” Review of Policy Research, Vol. 41, No. 2 (March 2024), 290-309. （）
Herman, Lior, Jonathan Ariel, “Comparative Energy Regionalism: North America and the European Energy Community,” Review of Policy Research, Vol. 41, No. 2 (March 2024), 382-404. （）
Nguitragool, Paruedee, and Helena Varkkey, “Chapter 27: Governing across Regions: Global Environment and Regionalism in Europe and Southeast Asia,” in Jürgen Rüland and Astrid Carrapatoso, eds., Handbook on Global Governance and Regionalism (Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2022), 400-418. （）
Week 17 – 12/30 – Class Topic: Sustainable Development Field Trip
Class directed to
台灣中油石油探索館：（02）8725-9761
Speaker:
台灣中油長官
Topic:
台灣中油與ESG
Time:
2024年12月30日 14:00-16:00
Venue:
台北市信義區松仁路3號
Required reading:
https://www.cpc.com.tw/csr/Default.aspx
Week 18 – 1/08 – Class Topic: Final Exam
Write your term paper carefully.
Submit your term paper due by 11:59PM of Friday, 1/10, 2025.
Course grades will be based on six components which also are student requirements on the course:
This includes your attendance and participation in discussions of class readings. Students are expected to do all the required weekly readings, attend the class on time, and take an active role in discussing the readings.
While class participation is required, in a university seminar course, each graduate student is expected to be rotated as a chair for discussion of an assigned reading for 30 minutes or so. In other words, three students are appointed for every week and you will be rotated/appointed accordingly. These three discussion chairs are encouraged, not required though, to organize a panel for better discussion and comparison of the three assignments. As a discussion chair, you must read your assigned reading very carefully and give the class a constructive review of the reading. Rotation of each reading will start from Week 2.
Students are NOT allowed to use AI writing tools. Each student in each week (except Week 1, Week 9, Week 17, and Week 18) is required to write a short essay (in Chinese or English) based on the three weekly readings. The weekly short essays must include your critical comments on each reading in academic writing within a one-page MS Word document. These essays are due at 11:59PM of each Friday. Essays turned in after the due time might not be counted.
Students are NOT allowed to use AI writing tools. Students are required to write a term paper (in Chinese or English), which should not normally exceed 14,000 words in Chinese or 7,000 words in English. The term paper should be submitted in academic writing in a MS Word document and due in week 18 (by 11:59PM of Friday, 1/10, 2025). The title for the term paper must be related to (1) the class topics of Week 2 to Week 17, given below; or (2) the topics related to ESG, CSR, or USR. The term paper must demonstrate an understanding of the sustainable development concept(s) raised in the class, adopt the theory introduced in the discussion, make reference to the readings set for the topic(s), and provide some possible solutions for better environmental/social/economic governance of your topic(s).
Your term paper proposal, ideally including the title, abstract, and outline within a one-page MS Word document, is scheduled to be submitted by 11:59PM of Friday, 11/01, 2024. Hereafter, you are encouraged to use my office hours for a consultation on your term paper before submitting your term paper.
Your short critical essays, term paper, and appointed discussion notes must be uploaded to:
Moodle ► 1131_ 261103001 _永續發展 ► 討論區.
All reading materials have been uploaded on Moodle.
Additional paper materials may be provided on Moodle and on the class, to supplement the required texts.