Environment and Society - MAN-BCU2032 - All lectures including powerpoint screenshots and mandatory literature - main exam material
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Module
Environment And Society (MANBCU2032)
Institution
Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen (RU)
Every lecture includes an overview of the topics
Every lecture includes screenshots of the powerpoints
And includes all mandatory exam literature that's being used in the presentations. I have another separate document for the summaries of all the literature.
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Lecture 1: Intro E&S and IPBES conceptual framework and global assessment ................................................ 3
Literature ............................................................................................................................................................ 3
1: Intro social science perspectives on E&S ........................................................................................................ 3
2: Intro global environmental & sustainable development policy ...................................................................... 4
3: IPBES conceptual framework: framework to study E&S relationships ........................................................... 6
4: IPBES global assessment: state-of-the-art on E&S ......................................................................................... 8
5: Logic of the course: activities and examination ............................................................................................. 9
Lecture 2: Theoretical perspectives & Governance + stakeholder analysis ..................................................... 10
Literature .......................................................................................................................................................... 10
1: Main theoretical perspectives in the social sciences (muchos importante) ................................................. 10
2: Governance and stakeholder analysis: ......................................................................................................... 11
Tragedy of the Commons ............................................................................................................................ 11
Stakeholder analysis: an approach to study the multi-actor character of environmental governance ...... 15
Transformative governance ......................................................................................................................... 17
Lecture 3: Framing and worldviews ................................................................................................................ 18
Literature .......................................................................................................................................................... 18
1: Social construction (of environmental problems) ......................................................................................... 18
2: Framing (Benford and Snow, Hannigan, Cronon) ......................................................................................... 18
3: Environmental worldviews (Clapp and Dauvergne) ..................................................................................... 21
4: Framing problems in the food system (Tomlinson) ...................................................................................... 23
Lecture 4: Treadmill of production and ecological modernization .................................................................. 25
Literature .......................................................................................................................................................... 25
1: Review major political economic worldviews of environmental solutions (Clapp) ....................................... 25
, 2: Treadmill of production (T.O.P.) ................................................................................................................... 27
3: Ecological Modernization ............................................................................................................................. 30
Degrowth as an emerging alternative ......................................................................................................... 33
Lecture 5: Philosophy of science and social scientific perspectives ................................................................. 34
Literature .......................................................................................................................................................... 34
The Anthropocene: current perspective on Environment-Society relations (Steffen et al; Baskin; Bierman) ... 34
Philosophy of science (and social scientific perspectives) (Moon and Blackman) ............................................ 35
Info on exam ..................................................................................................................................................... 38
,Lecture 1: Intro E&S and IPBES conceptual framework and global
assessment
By Ingrid
Literature
1) Giddens, The Environment, chapter 5 (partim) from A. Giddens, Sociology, Polity Press,
Cambridge, 2008 (6th Edition), pp. 155-166.
2) J. Pretty et al., Introduction to Environment and Society, in J. Pretty et al., The SAGE
Handbook of Environment and Society, SAGE, Los Angeles, 2007, pp. 1-15.
3) Diaz, S. et al. 2015. The IPBES conceptual framework – connecting nature and people.
Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 14: 1-16.
4) Visseren-Hamakers, I.J., 2020. The 18th Sustainable Development Goal. Earth System
Governance 3: 100047.
1: Intro social science perspectives on E&S (also see today’s readings: Giddens and Pretty et al.)
2: Intro global environmental & sustainable development policy
3: IPBES conceptual framework: framework to study E&S relationships
4: IPBES global assessment: state-of-the-art on E&S
5: Logic of the course: activities and examination
1: Intro social science perspectives on E&S
Environment and society
- Society as a cause of & solution to environmental problems
- Environmental problems influence society
- But: society part of environment?
All social scientific disciplines study Environment & Society
- See Giddens and Pretty et. Al for overviews
Selection of perspectives/approaches/frameworks in this course
- IPBES conceptual framework
- Governance
- Stakeholder analysis
- Framing
- Worldviews
- Treadmill of production
- Ecological modernization
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,2: Intro global environmental & sustainable development policy
The concept of sustainable development: different contributions
• Late 1980s: the Brundtland commission (WCED) in Our common future, report on request of
the UN, both UNDP and UNEP, Anticipating the 1992 Rio summit
• Defined as: ‘sustainable development is a development which. Meets the needs of the
present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs’.
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
The 18th SDG (Visseren-Hamakers)
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,The OXFAM – Kate Raworth approach
Planetary boundaries for ‘environmental ceiling’ (a safe space) is paralleled to ‘social foundations’ (=
a just space): the doughnut
The ecocentric, compassionate an just doughnut economy
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, 3: IPBES conceptual framework: framework to study E&S relationships
• Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity & Ecosystem Services
• Inspired by IPCC, science-policy interface
• Discussions on IPBES started in 2007, after finalization of Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
(MA, 2005)
• 1st IPBES Plenary in 2013 in Bonn
• Over 130 Member States / secretariat in Bonn
• Global Assessment (GA) published in May 2019, in time for renewal Strategic Plan CBD and
its Aichi targets: Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework
• Regional assessments (feed into GA)
• Thematic assessments (pollinators, land degradation, pandemics, IAS, …)
• Upcoming assessments: nexus and transformative change
Arrows are where the action is happening.
The fabric of life on Earth is deteriorating fast worldwide: virtually all indicators of the global
state of nature are decreasing.
The biosphere and atmosphere, upon which humanity as a whole depends, have been
deeply reconfigured by people
- 75% of the land area is very significantly altered
- 66% of the ocean area is experiencing increasing cumulative impacts
- >85% of wetland area has been lost
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