Note from June 29, 2020
Although we do not yet know how long the social distancing related to the Covid-19 pandemic will last, and regardless of the changes that had to be made in the evaluation of the June 2020 session in relation to what is provided for in this learning unit description, new learnig unit evaluation methods may still be adopted by the teachers; details of these methods have been - or will be - communicated to the students by the teachers, as soon as possible.
Although we do not yet know how long the social distancing related to the Covid-19 pandemic will last, and regardless of the changes that had to be made in the evaluation of the June 2020 session in relation to what is provided for in this learning unit description, new learnig unit evaluation methods may still be adopted by the teachers; details of these methods have been - or will be - communicated to the students by the teachers, as soon as possible.
5 credits
30.0 h + 6.0 h
Q2
Teacher(s)
Roman Philippe;
Language
French
Main themes
The course is divided into three parts:
- historical and institutional underpinnings of sustainable development: origins, international treaties
; essential concepts (externalities, (non) renewable resources; ecological footprint, global change
); introduction to the environmental problems;
- links with socioeconomic questions like : externalities, growth, (resource) productivity, enterprises choices, consumer behavior
;
- some specific topics: economic instruments (ecotaxes, deposits, subsidies, pollution rights
); environment, resource productivity (factor 4) and employment; greenhouse effect and carbon tax
Aims
At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to : | |
| 1 | The main objective of this course is to understand the concept of sustainable development and it's implications on the social and economic dimensions of the society. And the end of the course, the student is supposed to be able to: - establish links between a sustainable development approach and some basic concepts or approaches proposed by economics (growth, employment, international trade ), sociology (social cohesion, poverty, quality of life ) or political science (democracy, participation ); - understand the institutional and political questions related to sustainable development (Rio Conference, Kyoto protocol, national and local sustainable development plans ); - apprehend globally the economic, social, environmental, cultural and institutional dimensions of human development. |
The contribution of this Teaching Unit to the development and command of the skills and learning outcomes of the programme(s) can be accessed at the end of this sheet, in the section entitled “Programmes/courses offering this Teaching Unit”.
Faculty or entity
OPES
Programmes / formations proposant cette unité d'enseignement (UE)
Title of the programme
Sigle
Credits
Prerequisites
Aims
Master [120] in Economic and Social Policy (shift schedule)
