目录

  • 1 Brief Introduction to Sustainable Development
    • 1.1 Course Promotional Mini-Video
    • 1.2 Brief Introduction to Sustainable  Development
    • 1.3 Lead-in Case
    • 1.4 In Class Activities
    • 1.5 After-Class Activities
    • 1.6 Key Terms
    • 1.7 References
  • 2 Chapter 1 Towards sustainable development
    • 2.1 Learning Objectives
    • 2.2 Before-Class Learning
      • 2.2.1 Text 1:The road to sustainable development
      • 2.2.2 Text 2: The 1992 Rio Earth Summit and after
      • 2.2.3 Text 3: Millennium Development Goals
      • 2.2.4 Text 4: The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
      • 2.2.5 Text 5: Capital and the ‘capitalization’ of sustainable development
      • 2.2.6 Text 6: Sustainable development as a ‘dialogue of values’
    • 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  Enterprise 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 Learning
      • 3.2.1 Text 1: Sustainability and sustainable development
      • 3.2.2 Text 2: Paths, perspectives and worldviews
      • 3.2.3 Text 3: Deep and shallow ecology
      • 3.2.4 Text 4: Social ecology
      • 3.2.5 Text 5: Bioregionalism
      • 3.2.6 Text 6: Systems thinking and complexity
      • 3.2.7 Text 7:The promise of new technology
    • 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 Learnimg
      • 4.2.1 Text 1:From dialogue to learning: “sustainability” as a heuristic
      • 4.2.2 Text 2: Science, politics and climate change
      • 4.2.3 Text 3 : The 2015 Paris Climate Agreement: COP21
      • 4.2.4 Text 4: The precautionary principle
      • 4.2.5 Text 5: Sustainability science: birth of a new discipline
      • 4.2.6 Text 6:  Science, knowledge and sustainability
    • 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 Learnimg
      • 5.2.1 Text 1:  The Relationship between Human Society and the Environment
      • 5.2.2 Text 2: Human Social Behavior Affecting the Environment
      • 5.2.3 Text 3:  Connecting Social with Environmental Justice
      • 5.2.4 Text 4: The Role of New Digital Media on Environmental Justice
      • 5.2.5 Text 5: Environmental Justice and Sustainable Development
      • 5.2.6 Text 6: The Idea of “the commons” in Social Capital
      • 5.2.7 Text 7: Critique on Achievement of the Environmental Justice Movement
      • 5.2.8 Text 8: Evaluation on Migration in Sustainable Development
      • 5.2.9 Text 9: Ecological Debt and Human Development
    • 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 Learning
      • 6.2.1 Text 1: Human Agency and Sustainable Development
      • 6.2.2 Text 2: Ecological Democratization
      • 6.2.3 Text 3:  Extending Democracy to the Workplace
      • 6.2.4 Text 4: Governance, Democracy and Eco-welfare
      • 6.2.5 Text 5: Global Civil Society and World Civic Politics
      • 6.2.6 Text 6: Greenpeace International and the Politics of Perspective Change  Greenpeace International, originating in Canada, in the late 1960s with a small but highly visible direct protest action agains...
    • 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 Learning
      • 7.2.1 Text 1: Natural Ecology in the Present Earth
      • 7.2.2 Text 2: IUCN Red List
      • 7.2.3 Text 3: The Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)
      • 7.2.4 Text 4: The Political Ecology of Conservation and Development
      • 7.2.5 Text 5: Capitalism and Conservation
      • 7.2.6 ​  Text 6: Urban Biodiversity
    • 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 Learning
      • 8.2.1 Text 1:  Sustainable Societies
      • 8.2.2 Text 2: Sustainability from the perspective of Production and consumption
      • 8.2.3 Text 3:  Urban Areas
    • 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 Learning
      • 9.2.1 Text 1: New Media and Sustainable Development
      • 9.2.2 Text 2: The Examples of GamesTelevisions and Advertisements
      • 9.2.3 Text 3:  The Features of “Education for Sustainable Development ” 
    • 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 Learning
      • 10.2.1 Text 1:  Leadership in Organizations and Society of Sustainable Development
      • 10.2.2 Text 2:  Some Representative Views with the UN PRME Initiative
    • 10.3 In-Class Discussion
    • 10.4 After-Class Output Project
    • 10.5 Summary and Homework
    • 10.6 Key Terms
    • 10.7 References
Learning Objectives

   Chapter 7Envisioning Sustainable Societies and Urban Areas

According to sustainable development goals set by United Nations, goal No. 11 is sustainable cities and communities with the aim of making cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.If you’re like most people, you live in a city. More than half the worlds population now lives in cities, and that figure will go to about two-thirds of humanity by the year. 

Cities are getting bigger. In 1990 there were ten“mega-cities”with 10 million inhabitants or more. In 2014, there were 28 mega-cities, home to 453 million people. Incredible, huh? A lot of people love cities; they’re centers of culture and business and life. The thing is, they’re also often centers of extreme poverty. To make cities sustainable for all, we can create good, affordable public housing. We can upgrade slum settlements.We can invest in public transport, create green spaces, and get a broader range of people involved in urban planning decisions.

 This lecture will explore methods and approaches to envisioning a sustainable society, making particular reference to sustainable urbanism, social sustainability, the ageing population and past and present examples of Utopian thinking. In relation to this, the potential and significance of experiential examples, strategies and plans that focus largely on sustainable design and sustainable communities will be discussed. 

    

   Therefore, after you have learned this chapter , you can 

   1. Understand the potential and significance of experiential examples on sustainable design and sustainable communities

       2. Know the strategies and plans that focus largely on sustainable design and sustainable communities