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
In-Class Discussion

 Extended  Learning

1. Review the Key Points 

Task 1:Group Work—do the summary of the key points in each part of Chapter 4

Task 2 :  Individual Thinking: (1) What is the relationship between human society and the environment? (2)Summarize  the various human social behaviors that affect the environment. (3) Why do we need to connect social with environmental justice ? How to connect social with environmental justice? (4) Discuss the roles of new digital media on environmental justice? (5) What is the relationship between environmental justice and sustainable developement? (6) How do you undestand the idea of “the commons" in social capital?(7) Please do the critical comment on achievement of the environmental justice movement? (8) How to evaluate on migration in sustainable development? (9) Discuss the ecological Ddebt and human development.

2. Group Discussion 

(1) What is the importance of environmental justice to sustainable development?

 (2) What is the function of social communities to do sustainable development in China? 

(3) How do you feel about the role and potential of digital technologies in developing  socially and environmentally sustainable communities?

(4) What broader lessons regarding sustainable development can be learned from Detroit?

(5)  How do migration issues bridge the gap between the local and the global?

3. Case Study 

Use SEKEN in Egypt and sustainable community in Chengdu as  case studies to illustrate how to conduct sustainable development, especially how human social behaviors can change the environment.