Many thanks for the suggested readings (and for the encouragements). Here's the list - don't hesitate to still send more (I also look forward to the replies to Stacy's more recent question)
"Green Growth" by Michael Jacobs and "Sustainable Consumption" by Doris Fuchs in: The Handbook of Global Climate and Environment Policy, edited by Robert Falkner, Wiley-Blackwell, April 2013 (paperback in 2016). Linnér, Björn-Ola, and Henrik Selin. "The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development: forty years in the making." Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 31.6 (2013): 971-987. "Whose Common Future" by The Ecologist (1993), first (www.thecornerhouse.org.uk/resource/reclaiming-commons) or last chapter Brand, Ulrich. 2012. “Green Economy the next Oxymoron? No Lessons Learned from Failures of Implementing Sustainable Development.” GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society 21(1):28–32. Carruthers, David. 2001. “From Opposition to Orthodoxy: The Remaking of Sustainable Development.” Journal of Third World Studies 18(2):93–112. Chatterjee, Pratap and Matthias Finger. 1994. The Earth Brokers: Power, Politics, and World Development. London: Routledge. Gendron, Corinne. 2007. Vous Avez Dit Développement Durable? Montréal: Presses Internationales Polytechnique. Kothari, Ashish, Federico Demaria, and Alberto Acosta. 2014. “Buen Vivir, Degrowth and Ecological Swaraj: Alternatives to Sustainable Development and the Green Economy.” Development 57(3-4):362–75. Redclift, Michael. 2005. “Sustainable Development (1987-2005): An Oxymoron Comes of Age.” Sustainable Development 13(4):212–27. Solé, Andréu. 2011. “Développement Durable Ou Décroissance. Le Point Aveugle Du Débat.” in Développement durable versus décroissance. Débats pour la suite du monde, edited by Yves-Marie Abraham, Louis Marion, and Hervé Philippe. Montréal: Écosociété. Michael Redclift and Delyse Springett (Eds),Routledge International Handbook of Sustainable Development,http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415838429 Best regards, Jörg On 06.01.2016 02:12 PM, Jörg Balsiger wrote: > Dear GEP-ED colleagues, > > I hope you're off to a good start in 2016. > > I'm preparing a new course (in French) on sustainable development for > first-year students of a Master in Environmental Sciences; their > backgrounds range from biology to human geography, law, business, > hotel management, and even nursing. > > Since the course is limited to seven 4-hour sessions, I don't want to > spend much (if any) time going over the history, main debates, and > current developments (that could easily be an entire course on its own > ...). At the same time, I think it's important that they acquire some > basic knowledge of key concepts, events/dates, actors, and > instruments. To this end, I plan to have them work together and in > small groups to create a set of flash cards they, future students, and > any other interested persons can use. The flash card set will be > published online using http://card2brain.ch/en, but there are > certainly other tools like it. > > To provide them with the background material for creating the cards > (to be read ahead of the first session, in the sense of an > inverted/flipped classroom), I'm looking for article or chapter-length > readings and hope you can help me identify what you consider the best > ones; they can be general ones on the early or more recent origins, or > focused on special topics such as strong versus weak sustainability, > Local Agenda 21, sustainability assessments, or SDGs. While the cards > will be in French, many of the students read more easily in English, > so I'm looking for readings in both English and French. > > Please respond to me directly and I will send the collection back to > the list. > > Many thanks and best regards, > > Jörg > > > -- > __________________________________________________________________________ > > Jörg Balsiger > Swiss National Science Foundation Professor > > Department of Geography and Environment > Institute for Environmental Governance and Territorial Development > University of Geneva > > Uni Carl Vogt > 66 Boulevard Carl-Vogt, B308 > CH-1211 Geneva 4 > Tel: +41 (0)22 379 9453 > [email protected] > __________________________________________________________________________ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "gep-ed" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
