目录

  • 1 Brief Introduction to Sustainable Development
    • 1.1 Learning Objectives
    • 1.2 Lead-in Case
    • 1.3 In-Class Activities
    • 1.4 After-Class Activities
    • 1.5 Key terms
    • 1.6 References
  • 2 Chapter 1 Towards sustainable development
    • 2.1 Learning Objectives
    • 2.2 Before-Class Reading
    • 2.3 In-Class Discussion
    • 2.4 After-Class Output Project
      • 2.4.1 Environmental Management on Global Level;
      • 2.4.2 Envronmental Management on National Level
      • 2.4.3 Environmental Management on Company Level
    • 2.5 Summary & Homework
    • 2.6 Key Terms
    • 2.7 References
  • 3 Chapter 2 : Worldviews and ethical values: towards an ecological paradigm
    • 3.1 Learning Objectives
    • 3.2 Before-Class Reading
    • 3.3 In-Class Discussion
    • 3.4 After-Class Output Project
    • 3.5 Summary and Homework
    • 3.6 Key Terms
    • 3.7 References
  • 4 Chapter 3 : Cultural and Contested understandings of Science and Sustainability
    • 4.1 Learning Objectives
    • 4.2 Before-Class Reading
    • 4.3 In-Class Discussion
    • 4.4 After-Class Output Project
    • 4.5 Summary and Homework
    • 4.6 Key Terms
    • 4.7 References
  • 5 Chapter 4 Connecting Social with Environmental Justice
    • 5.1 Learning Objectives
    • 5.2 Before-Class Reading
    • 5.3 In-Class Discussion
    • 5.4 After-Class Ourput Project
    • 5.5 Summary and Homwork
    • 5.6 Key Terms
    • 5.7 References
  • 6 Chapter 5: Sustainable development, politics and governance
    • 6.1 Learning Objectives
    • 6.2 Before-Class Reading
    • 6.3 In-Class Discussion
    • 6.4 After-Class Output Project
    • 6.5 Summary and Homework
    • 6.6 Key Terms
    • 6.7 References
  • 7 Chapter 6: Conservation and Sustainable Development
    • 7.1 Learning Objectives
    • 7.2 Before-Class Reading
    • 7.3 In-Class Discussion
    • 7.4 After-Class Output Project
    • 7.5 Summary and Homework
    • 7.6 Key Terms
    • 7.7 References
  • 8 Chapter 7 Envisioning sustainable societies and urban areas
    • 8.1 Learning Objectives
    • 8.2 Before-Class Reading
    • 8.3 In-Class Discussion
    • 8.4 After-Class Output Project
    • 8.5 Summary and Homework
    • 8.6 Key Terms
    • 8.7 References
  • 9 Chapter 8  Communication and Learning for Sustainability
    • 9.1 Learning Objectives
    • 9.2 Before-Class Reading
    • 9.3 In-Class Discussion
    • 9.4 After-Class Output Project
    • 9.5 Summary and Homework
    • 9.6 Key Terms
    • 9.7 References
  • 10 Chapter 9 Leading the Sustainability Process
    • 10.1 Learning Objectives
    • 10.2 Before-Class Reading
    • 10.3 In-Class Discussion
    • 10.4 After-Class Output Project
    • 10.5 Summary and Homework
    • 10.6 Key Terms
    • 10.7 References
  • 11 Final Tasks
    • 11.1 Final Academic Poster
      • 11.1.1 Some  Helpful Tips (Chapter 8 after-class task)
      • 11.1.2 Some Helpful Videos
      • 11.1.3 Some Previous Homework
    • 11.2 Some Inspirations for Research Questions
    • 11.3 Final Paper--How to Find a Research Question
    • 11.4 Final Paper-How to Do the Literature Review
    • 11.5 Final Paper--How to Write the Methology Chapter
    • 11.6 Final Paper--What is Quantitative Research and Qualitative Research
    • 11.7 Final Paper--How to Write the Result and Discussion
Learning Objectives

Chapter 1 Towards sustainable development

   The aim of this chapter is to introduce the concepts of sustainable development, indicating the complex and often contested nature of various debates, actions and practices that have occurred in recent years. The significance of some key international agreements and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will be discussed, as will the criticisms and comments they have stimulated. Sustainable development has emerged through political and environmental struggles, and through a business, citizen and governmental engagement with the complexity of contemporary ecological and other problems.The chapter ends with the suggestions that sustainable development is perhaps best understood as a ‘dialogue of values’ – a way of encouraging people to learn, to discover and to evaluate.

Therefore, after you have learned this chapter, you can 

1) understand the concepts of sustainable development ;2) show opinions to various debates, actions and practices related to sustainable development ; 3) know some international agreements and the Sustainable Development Goals4) understand the three dimension related to sustainable development5) discuss the opinion that sustainable development is a kind of dialogue of values.