SUSTAINABILITY 4: IMPLEMENTATION OF SUSTAINABILITY

The course is part of the minor on sustainability.

The course aims at providing the students with a clear understanding of what sustainability means, how it can be implemented and assessed and how the different disciplines can play a role in supporting its achievement.

Having attended the previous courses within the minor on sustainability.

The Course starts from a recall of how the sustainable development concept developed to arrive to the current one. Particular attention will be given to the Sustainable Development Goals, to their targets, monitoring and assessment system as basis of the discussion.
Green and circular economy will be introduced as pattern currently proposed to achieve sustainable development and tools available to support them, such as life cycle assessment, will be presented and tested, using specific case studies.
Room will be given also to alternative solutions, such as the degrowth.

UN 1992. Rio Declaration
UN 2000. The Millennium Declaration; http://unsdsn.org/
UN 2002. Johannesburg Declaration.
UN 2012. The future we want; Final list of proposed Sustainable Development Goal indicators.
ISTAT 2016. Bes 2015. Il Benessere Equo e Sostenibile in Italia.
Post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals still neglecting their environmental roots in the Anthropocene
Reid A.J., Brooks J.L., Dolgova L., Laurich B., Sullivan B.G., Szekeres P., Wood S.L.R.,. Bennett J.R., Cooke S.J., 2017. Post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals still neglecting their environmental roots in the Anthropocene, in Environmental Science and Policy 77 (2017) 179–184.
UN, 2017. The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2017.

Frosch R.A., Gallopoulos N., 1989. "Strategies for Manufacturing", Scientific American 9/89; pp 144-152.
Lifset R. & Graedel T.E., 2002. Industrial ecology: goals and definitions in A handbook of industrial ecology, Robert U. Ayres, Leslie Ayres.
“Live Better by Consuming Less? Is There a “Double Dividend” in Sustainable Consumption?”, Journal of Industrial Ecology, Vol. 9, n. 1–2;
Hertwich E. G., 2005, “Consumption and the Rebound Effect An Industrial Ecology Perspective”, Journal of Industrial Ecology, Volume 9, Number 1–2.
Lifset R., 2000, “Moving from Products to Services”, Journal of Industrial Ecology, Vol. 4, n. 1
Lim W. G., 2017, “Inside the sustainable consumption theoretical toolbox: Critical concepts for sustainability, consumption, and marketing”, in Journal of Business Research, 78, pp. 69–80.
The Paris Agreement, 2015.

A final individual paper will be requested together with presentations in class during the entire course.

Frontal classes and interactive discussions, using case studies and practical examples.

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This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Circular economy, innovation, work" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development