Sustainable Development 2015 Mid-term Exam

Focus on: understanding key premises, concepts, theories

Multiple choice:
12%; 18 questions, approximately 3 for each topic covered
mainly recognition and understanding of concepts discussed in
lectures (some reference to readings)
Short answer
18%; 6 topics; answer 1 of 2 questions in each topic.
articulate understanding of concepts, use examples to clarify
Most questions requires 3 strong points to be made for full
marks. Each point may require one clear logical sentence, or 2
or 3 sentences to elaborate and provide examples to ensure your
point gets across. Examples always help.
Simple identifications/definitions only count for 0.5 points, thus
the rest of question is 2.5 points.
Study guide
Summary questions at the end of each power point provide a
good indication of what type of questions will be on the test. A new
Environment ppt has been uploaded with summary questions.
Midterm Readings
Weeks 1&2

History and Interpretation

Overview in WCED (World Commission on Environment

and Development) 1987 Our Common Future. United
Nations. http://www.un-documents.net/wced-ocf.htm
(Canvas)
Hopwood, Bob, Mary Mellor, Geoff O'Brien 2005. Sustainable
development: mapping different approaches, Sustainable
Development 13:38-52. (Canvas)
Processes and Principles

Sachs, J. 2015 Ch. 4 Why Some Countries Developed

While Others Stayed Poor, in The Age of Sustainable
Development (Canvas)

Week 3:

Environment

Steffen et al., 2015 Planetary boundaries: Guiding human

development on a changing planet, Science 347, 1259855
(Canvas)
Folke, C., Carpenter, S., Elmqvist, T., Gunderson, L., Holling, C.S.,
and Walker, B. Resilience and Sustainable Development: Building
Adaptive Capacity in a World of Transformations Ambio 31:5 pp.
437-440. (Canvas)
Society
Murphy, K. 2012 The social pillar of sustainable
development: a literature review and framework for
policy analysis, Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy
8 pp. 15-29. (Canvas)
Dempsey N., Bramley, G., Power, S. and Brown, C. 2011 The Social
Dimension of Sustainable Development: Defining Urban Social
Sustainability, Sustainable Development 19, 289300. (Canvas)

Week 4

Daly, H. 2005 Economics in a Full World Scientific

American, September pp. 100-107. (Canvas)

Week 5

Economics

Technology

Chapter 4 Industrial Ecology in Graedel T.E. and B.R.

Allenby (1999). Industrial Ecology 1st Edition. Upper
Saddle River: Prentice Hall. (Canvas)
Graedel T.E. and B.R. Allenby (2003). Industrial Ecology 2nd
Edition. Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall. (RESERVE)