Food and sustainable development | Université Catholique de Lille

Establishment

ESPOL European School of Political and Social Sciences

Language of instruction

French, English

This course occurs in the following program(s)

Training officer(s)

SABINE WEILAND

Period

Presentation
Terms
Resources

Présentation

Modalités

Forms of instruction

The organisation of this project course is twofold: The first part is a short theoretical introduction into sustainability key issues: sustainability discourses and policies, and sustainability transformation – and their relation to food. The sessions involve an overview presentation on the session topic, classical text reading and discussion. You are required to read the basic seminar literature in preparation of the sessions. The lecture slides will be uploaded to Moodle.

The second part contains sessions on selected topics in ‘food and sustainable development’. The topics will be selected by the course participants. The main part of the course work will be in form of ‘project work’. The working group is also in charge of the session preparation. The course instructor will support the working groups by any means according to their needs.

Each student is required to participate in one working group. This includes the collective work on the selected topic, session preparation, accomplishment of the session, and a short input paper for the last session. The project work should result in a written course paper.

The grading will be done as follows:

40% presentation during session
20% session preparation
40% written scientific paper

Evaluation

Contrôle continu : coeff. 100

Ressources

Bibliography

Barbier, E.B. (2010). A Global Green New Deal: Rethinking the Economic Recovery. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.|| Botsman, R./Rogers, R. (2010). What’s Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption. New York.|| Brand, U. (2012). Green Economy - the Next Oxymoron? GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society, 21(1), pp. 28-32.|| Daly, H. (1996). Beyond Growth: The Economics of Sustainable Development. Washington D.C.|| Elzen, B./Geels, F.W./Green, K. (eds.) (2004). System Innovation and the Transition to Sustainability: Theory, Evidence and Policy. Cheltenham.|| Escobar, A. (2011). Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World. Princeton University Press.|| Jackson, T. (2009). Prosperity Without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet. London.|| Jordan, A. (2008). The governance of sustainable development: taking stock and looking forwards. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 26(1), pp. 17-33.|| Meadowcroft, J. (2011). Engaging with the politics of sustainability transitions, Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions 1(1) pp. 70-75.|| Meadows, D. et al. (1973). The Limits to Growth¿: A Report for the Club of Rome’s Project on the Predicament of Mankind. New York.|| Muraca, B. (2013). Décroissance: A Project for a Radical Transformation of Society. Environmental Values 22, pp. 147-169.|| Sekulova, F., Kallis, G., Rodríguez-Labajos, B., & Schneider, F. (2013). Degrowth: From theory to practice. Journal of Cleaner Production 38, pp. 1-6.|| Shove, E./Walker, G. (2010). Governing transitions in the sustainability of everyday life. Research Policy 39, pp. 471-476.|| Smith, A. (2007). Translating sustainabilities between green niches and socio-technical regimes. Technology Analysis & Strategic Management 19(4), pp. 427-450.|| WBGU (Wissenschaftlicher Beirat der Bundesregierung Globale Umweltveränderungen). (2011). World in Transition: A Social Contract for Sustainability (Flagship Report). Berlin.|| WCED (World Commission on Environment and Development) (1987). Our Common Future. Oxford University Press.