Sustainability and Development (Generic Elective)

Paper Code: 
GGEO 401
Credits: 
4
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
20.00
Unit I: 
Unit I
  • Sustainability: Definition, Components and Sustainability for Development.
  • The Millennium Development Goals: National Strategies and International Experiences.

 

20.00
Unit II: 
Unit II
  • Sustainable Development: Need and examples from different Ecosystems.
  • Inclusive Development: Education, Health; Climate Change: The role of higher education in  sustainability; The human right to health; Poverty and disease; Sustainable Livelihood Model; Policies and Global Cooperation for Climate Change.

 

20.00
Unit III: 
Unit III
  • Sustainable Development Policies and Programmes: Rio+20; Goal-Based Development;   Financing for Sustainable Development; Principles of Good Governance; National Environmental Policy, CDM.
  • Case Study of any type of disaster.

 

Essential Readings: 
  1. Agyeman, Julian, Robert D. Bullard and Bob Evans (Eds.) (2003) Just Sustainabilities: Development in an Unequal World. London: Earthscan. (Introduction and conclusion.).
  2. Ayers, Jessica and David Dodman (2010) “Climate change adaptation and development I: the state of the debate”. Progress in Development Studies 10 (2): 161-168.
  3. Baker, Susan (2006) Sustainable Development. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York, N.Y.: Routledge. (Chapter 2, “The concept of sustainable development”).
  4. Brosius,         Peter   (1997)   “Endangered  forest,   endangered  people:   Environmentalist representations of indigenous knowledge”, Human Ecology 25: 47-69.
  5. Lohman, Larry (2003) “Re-imagining the population debate”. Corner House Briefing 28.
  6. Martínez-Alier, Joan et al (2010) “Sustainable de-growth: Mapping the context, criticisms and future prospects of an emergent paradigm” Ecological Economics 69: 1741-1747.
  7. Merchant, Carolyn (Ed.) (1994) Ecology. Atlantic Highlands, N.J: Humanities Press. (Introduction, pp 1-25.)
  8. Osorio, Leonardo et al (2005) “Debates on sustainable development: towards a holistic view of reality”. Environment, Development and Sustainability 7: 501-518.
  9. Robbins, Paul (2004) Political Ecology: A Critical Introduction. Blackwell Publishing.

 

 

Academic Year: 
2023-2024