605PP-21: Reading list

	A=mandatory; B=read/watch only; C=supplementary material; for the meaning of the asterisk* see below
A.0	You need to study ONLY 6 SDGs (including those you presented or discussed)
Topic 1:	What is SustDv? Our Common Future and Agenda 2030	Click below to submit the TIME SPENT ON EACH of these READINGs and YOUR QUESTIONs
A.1.1	Chapter 2 of OUR COMMON FUTURE (@ http://www.un-documents.net/ocf-02.htm)	Submit
A.1.2	Harris, Jonathan M. "Basic Principles of Sustainable Development" (2000)(download)	Submit
A.1.3	Agenda 2030: @ https://sdgs.un.org/2030agenda or download the local copy	Submit
B.1.1	Sustainable development - concept and action (UNECE) @: https://unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/oes/nutshell/2004-2005/focus_sustainable_development.htm
A.1.4	Robert, K. W., Parris, T. M., & Leiserowitz, A. A. (2005). What is sustainable development? Goals, indicators, values, and practice. Environment: science and policy for sustainable development, 47(3), 8-2 (download)	Submit
A.1.5*	Mensah, J., & Casadevall, S. R. (2019). Sustainable development: Meaning, history, principles, pillars, and implications for human action: Literature review. Cogent Social Sciences, 5(1), 1653531. (download)	Submit
A.1.6	Daly, H. E. (2007). Ecological economics and sustainable development, selected essays of Herman Daly, Edward Elgar (Download) Farley, J., & Luzzati, T. (2023). In memoriam: Herman Daly (1938–2022). (Download)	Submit
A.1.S	Lecture's slides--> see slide section
C	OUR COMMON FUTURE (FULL REPORT)

Topic 2:	At the roots of unsustainability: the Anthropocene
A.2.1	Boulding, K. (1966). The economics of the coming spaceship Earth. In Environmental Quality in a Growing Economy. H. Jarrett Ed. (Download)	Submit
A.2.2	Crutzen, P. J. (2002). Geology of mankind. Nature, 415(6867), 23-23 (Download)	Submit
A.2.3	Steffen, W., Grinevald, J., Crutzen, P., & McNeill, J. (2011). The Anthropocene: conceptual and historical perspectives. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 369(1938), 842-867 (Download)	Submit
A.2.4	Rockstrom et al. 2009, A safe operating space for humanity (Download)	Submit
A.2.5	Georgescu Roegen: Minimal Bioeconomic Program (Download)	Qs not needed
A.2.6a*	Mayumi, Kozo. "Nicholas Georgescu‐Roegen: His Bioeconomics Approach to Development and Change." Development and Change 40, no. 6 (2009): 1235-1254 (Download) ONLY pp.1235-1240 Maneschi, A., & Zamagni, S. (1997). Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, 1906-1994. Economic Journal, 107(442), 695-707. ONLY SECTIONS I, III, IV (download)	Submit
A.2.6b	Georgescu-Roegen, N. (1970). The entropy law and the economic problem. Energy and Economic Myth. Institutional and Analytical Economic Essays, 53-60.	Submit
A.2.7	Luzzati T., 2009, Human needs, sustainable development, and public policy: learning from K.W. Kapp (1910–1976), in Salvadori N. and Opocher A. (eds.), Long-run Growth, Social Institutions and Living Standards, Edward Elgar, 306-322 (Download)	Submit
A.2.8	Fischer‐Kowalski, M., Krausmann, F., Giljum, S., Lutter, S., Mayer, A., Bringezu, S., ... & Weisz, H. (2011). Methodology and indicators of economy‐wide material flow accounting. Journal of Industrial Ecology, 15(6) (Download) (ONLY up to the first column of p. 862 PLUS my slides) AND the following Webpage: (all concepts have to be known VERY WELL, they are well explained also in the slides) http://www.materialflows.net/methods/	Submit

A.2.9	ANTHROPOCENE: the film is not available anymore, PLS have a look here: https://theanthropocene.org/film/	Qs not needed
A.2.10	Video: 300 Years of FOSSIL FUELS in 300 Seconds WATCH	Qs not needed
B.2.1	https://www.ted.com/talks/rob_hopkins_transition_to_a_world_without_oil#t-16615
B.2.2	DOCUFILM:

	Optional readings on topic 2
C	Moore, Jason W., INTRODUCTION to "Anthropocene or Capitalocene? Nature, History, and the Crisis of Capitalism" (2016). Sociology Faculty Scholarship. (available at https://orb.binghamton.edu/sociology_fac/1/ Avallone G, Leonardi E, 2018, Anthropocene? More like ‘Capitalocene’ https://global.ilmanifesto.it/anthropocene-more-like-capitalocene/ Spire S., 2018, Review: Anthropocene or Capitalocene? https://www.simonspire.com/blog/anthropocene-or-capitalocene Georgescu Roegen (1975), Energy and Economic MythsSouthern Economic Journal, Vol. 41 (3), pp. 347-381 Georgescu Roegen (1976) Energy and the Economic problem Holling, C. S. (2001). Understanding the complexity of economic, ecological, and social systems. Ecosystems, 4(5), 390-405. Krausmann, F., Gingrich, S., Eisenmenger, N., Erb, K. H., Haberl, H., & Fischer-Kowalski, M. (2009). Growth in global materials use, GDP and population during the 20th century. Ecological Economics, 68(10), 2696-2705. Smil, (2000) Energy in the XXth century (sections 2, 5, 8) Crutzen and Stoermer, 2000, Anthropocene
Topic 3:	The Circular Economy
A.3.1	Explaining the Circular Economy and How Society Can Re-think Progress \| Animated Video Essay: RETHINKING PROGRESS https://yt.europarltv.europa.eu/embed.min.html?id=4756&lang=en# https://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/infographics/circulareconomy/public/index.html AND slides of the class (EU ActionPlan)	Submit
B.3.5	Circular Economy Explained: What Is It & Why Is It Important?	Qs not needed
B.3.6	What If We Don’t Buy Products and We Buy Service? Circular Economy Explained \| Animated Video Essay	Qs not needed
A3.2	de Man, R. and Friege, H., 2016. Circular economy: European policy on shaky ground, 93-95. Waste Management & Research, 34(2), 93–95.	Submit
C	A NEW TEXTILES ECONOMY: REDESIGNING FASHION’S FUTURE: SUMMARY OF THE FINDINGs

	Optional readings on topic 3
C	Skene, Keith Ronald. "Circles, spirals, pyramids and cubes: why the circular economy cannot work." Sustainability Science 13, no. 2 (2018): 479-492. Korhonen, J., Honkasalo, A. and SeppŠlŠ, J., 2018. Circular economy: the concept and its limitations. Ecological economics, 143, pp.37-46. Dodick, J. and Kauffman, D., 2020. A Review of the European Union Circular Economy Policy. Report from Project The route to circular economy. Project funded by European Union Horizon. Corvellec, Hervé, Alison F. Stowell, and Nils Johansson. "Critiques of the circular economy." Journal of Industrial Ecology (2021).

Topic 4:	Policy-related issues
A.4.1	German Constitutional Court's ruling on the climate law: READ ALL the following papers and look for differences in writing a mass media article Guardian Financial Times (Guy Chazan, see my slides if not accessible) New York Times BBC	Submit
A.4.2	a) Zaccai, E. (2012). Over two decades in pursuit of sustainable development: Influence, transformations, limits. Environmental Development, 1(1), 79-90. b) "Green tape"	Submit
A.4.3	Slides of the lectures on env policies	Submit
A.4.5*	1) Ambec, S., Cohen, M.A., Elgie, S. and Lanoie, P., 2013. The Porter hypothesis at 20: can environmental regulation enhance innovation and competitiveness?. Review of environmental economics and policy, 7(1), pp.2-22. 2) Slides on the Porter's HP (L. Caluri)	Submit
C	Porter, M.E. and Van der Linde, C., 1995. Toward a new conception of the environment-competitiveness relationship. The journal of economic perspectives, 9(4), pp.97-118.

Topic 5:	The precautionary principle
A5.1	Costanza 1989, What is ecological economics (excerpt) (psw Pace)	Submit
A5.2	Stirling, The Guardian 2013 Stirling, A. (2007). Risk, precaution and science: towards a more constructive policy debate. Talking point on the precautionary principle. EMBO Reports, 8(4), 309–315.	Submit
A5.2	My SLIDES on Precautionary Principle	Qs not needed

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