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Planning for Sustainable Development

Graduate · Historical course

Spring 2006

Topics

  • Introduction and Overview
  • Some Prominent Ways of Framing Sustainability
  • Framing Sustainability Locally: An International Comparison
  • Framing Sustainability as Local Action: Cambridge and MIT
  • Understanding and Managing Change in Organizational Settings
  • Sustainability and Innovation
  • Promoting Sustainability in State and Local Government
  • Sustainable Action at a University
  • Preliminary Presentations and In-class Critique
  • Building a Story about Change
  • Working Session
  • Final Presentations

Readings

  • World Commission on Environment and Development. Our Common Future . Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1987, pp. ix-v, 1-23, 43-65. ISBN: 019282080X.
    Listed reading
  • Redclift, Michael. “The Multiple Dimensions of Sustainable Development.” Geography 76 (1991): 36-42.
    Listed reading
  • Meadows, Dennis, Donella Meadows, and Jorgen Randers. Beyond the Limits: Confronting Global Collapse, Envisioning a Sustainable Future . White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 1993, preface, chapters 1 and 6. ISBN: 0930031628.
    Listed reading
  • Holdren, John P., Gretchen C. Daily, and Paul R. Ehrlich. “The Meaning of Sustainability: Bio-Geophysical Aspects.” Excerpted from Defining and Measuring Sustainability . Edited by Mohan Munasinghe and Walter Shearer. Washington, DC: World Bank, 1995. ISBN: 0821331345.
    Listed reading
  • Solow, R. “Sustainability: An Economist’s Perspective.” In Economics of the Environment . Edited by R. Dorfman and N. Dorfman. 3rd ed. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1993, pp. 179-187. ISBN: 0393963101.
    Listed reading
  • Howarth, Richard. “Intergenerational Justice and the Chain of Obligation.” Environmental Values 1 (1992): 133-40.
    Listed reading
  • Sen, Amartya. Development as Freedom . New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999, Introduction and chapter 1. ISBN: 0385720270.
    Listed reading
  • Sitarz, D., ed. Agenda 21: The Earth Summit Strategy to Save Our Planet . Boulder, CO: Earthpress, 1994, pp. 1-23, 131-134, and 263-316. ISBN: 093575511X.
    Listed reading
  • Armstrong, Robert, and Ernest Moniz. “Report of the Energy Research Council.” Cambridge, MA: MIT Energy Research Council, May 3, 2006. ( PDF - 2.4 MB ) ↗
    Listed reading
  • Wenger, Etienne. Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and Identity . Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1998, pp. 1-42, 43-51, and 225-241. ISBN: 0521430178.
    Listed reading
  • Wenger, E. C., and W. M. Snyder. “Communities of Practice: the Organizational Frontier.” Harvard Business Review 78, no. 1 (2000): 139-147.
    Listed reading
  • Laws, David, and Lily Pollans. “SunLine Transit: Managing Change for Sustainable Development.” Cambridge, MA: MIT Environmental Technology and Public Policy Program Working Paper, May 20, 2004.
    Listed reading
  • Lester, Richard, and Michael Piore. Innovation the Missing Dimension . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004, chapters 2 and 3. ISBN: 0674015819.
    Listed reading
  • Weber, Matthias, Remco Hoogma, Ben Lane, and Johan Schot. Experimenting with Sustainable Transport Innovations: A Workbook for Strategic Niche Management . Seville, Spain: Enschede Press, 1999. ISBN: 0415271169.
    Listed reading
  • WEEK #: 10 · TOPICS: Building a Story about Change · READINGS: Mishler, Elliot. Storylines: Craftartists’ Narratives of Identity . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004, pp. xiii-xv, 1-20, and 165-169. ISBN: 067401586X.
    Reading assignment
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