- Department: Environment and Geography
- Credit value: 20 credits
- Credit level: M
- Academic year of delivery: 2024-25
This module provides a critical introduction to the concepts of sustainability and justice (environmental, climate and social), unpacking their history, meaning, interactions and real world application. This will ensure that students can fully grasp why any discussion and visioning of our planetary future must consider and balance these twin objectives. A day fieldtrip will be a visit to an organisation attempting to implement sustainability and justice strategies.
Occurrence | Teaching period |
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A | Semester 1 2024-25 |
The aim of this module is to equip students with a holistic understanding of sustainability and justice concepts, and the challenge and struggles in their real world application. By doing so, students will be able to recognise the role that business and other organisations have to play in facilitating a sustainable and just future.
Skills:
Undertake advanced research on sustainability and justice issues and their links to organisation practices
Analyse complex sustainability and justice problems
At the end of the module students will be able to:
Critically discuss and undertake advanced research to establish the fundamental principles which underlie key environmental sustainability and justice issues;
Establish and evaluate the drivers for change to organisational practice and innovation to solve sustainability and justice issues;
Analyse complex sustainability and justice issues and critically assess the role of organisations in creating and solving associated problems;
Discuss and debate sustainability and justice issues in an international setting.
Task | % of module mark |
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Essay/coursework | 100 |
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Task | % of module mark |
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Essay/coursework | 100 |
Feedback on summative assessments will follow DEG guidelines with written scripts being annotated and a feedback form provided.
Agyeman, J. 2005. Sustainable Communities and the Challenge of Environmental Justice. NYU Press.
Albareda, L., Bocken, N., Ritala, P., and Verburg, R. (eds.) 2019. Innovation for Sustainability: Business Transformations Towards a Better World. Springer International Publishing.
Cardona, J. L. 2014. Sustainability: a history. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Chancel, L and DeBevoise, M. 2020. Unsustainable Inequalities. Harvard: Harvard University Press.
Gonzalez, C. G., Seck, S. L. and Atapattu, S. (eds.). 2021. The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Justice and Sustainable Development. United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.
Merchant, C. 2020. The Anthropocene and the Humanities: From Climate Change to a New Age of Sustainability. Yale: Yale University Press.