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    SUSTAINABILITY MANAGEMENT

    Many civilizations of the past were unaware of threats to their existence until it was too late.
    For the first time in human history we have a remarkably clear picture of the sobering
    challenges we face: climate change, species extinction, deforestation, resource depletion, and
    widespread economic inequality. By 2050, Earth will be host to between 9 and 10 billion
    humans. With a population of this size and with growing per capita resource use, humanity has
    a large and increasing impact on the ecological systems on which it depends. This Course
    explores the concept and practices of Sustainability Development, a measure of human
    resource use and pollution, and several anthropogenic activities compared with the Earth’s
    capacity to regenerate, called bio-capacity and caring for the generations to come. When we
    use ecological intelligence and extend our self to compare different modes of living, it can
    point the way towards a sustainable society.
    Course Objective
    1. Understand the basic concept of Sustainable Development (SD), the environmental,
    social and economic dimensions.
    2. Know the history of the SD idea and its contemporary applications
    3. Be able to discuss the conflicts which are involved in the Sustainability philosophy on
    the national as well as on the global scale.
    4. Be familiar with potential strategic options for SD (efficiency, sufficiency).
    5. Understand the SD challenge for companies, their responsibility and their potentials for
    action.
    Course Outcomes:
    At the end of the course students will be able to:
    CO1: Apply some of the basic sustainability measures at a personal and professional level.
    CO2: Have an informed conversation about the multiple dimensions and complexity of
    sustainability
    CO3: Evaluate at a concept level sustainability using an evidence-based disciplinary approach
    and integrate economic, ecological, and social perspectives.
    CO4: Think critically about sustainability across a diversity of cultural values and across
    multiple scales of relevance from local to global.
    CO5: Recognize and assess how sustainability impacts their lives and how their actions impact
    sustainability
    CO6: Identify different stakeholders in a challenge to sustainability, and analyze the political
    and economic structures that connect them
    CONTENT
    UNIT 1: Introduction to Sustainability: Its Purposes, Challenges and Requirements
    (6 Hours)
    (a) Concept, Context and rational of sustainability
    (b) United Nations agenda on Sustainability and SDG
    (c) The challenges of Sustainable development

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    (d) The Actors and actions in sustainable development
    (e) Select Indian Programmes on Sustainability

    UNIT – 2- Industries, Technology and Society (6 Hours)


    (a) The Consumer Society and Consumption
    (b) Technology and Industry Paradox
    (c) Technology and Sustainability
    (d) Alternative, Appropriate and Sustainable Technology
    (e) Actions of various organizations on sustainability – Case Studies

    UNIT - 3: Sustainable Development (6 Hours)


    (a) Dimensions of sustainable Development
    (b) Green Marketing
    (c) Tools for Sustainable Development
    (d) GPI (Genuine Progress Indicator) and HDI (Human Development Index)
    (e) Bridging the Ecological – Societal Gaps - Income/food/value/education/
    resource management Gap

    UNIT-4: The Economics and Ethics of Sustainability (6 Hours)


    (a) The scale of Economy, Carrying capacity and Ecology
    (b) Environmental Ethics/Biodiversity/Green Economy
    (c) Precautionary, Polluter pay Principle and Tragedy of Commons
    (d) Sustainable Economics – Extended Producer Responsibility
    (e) Full Cost Accounting- Conventional/Hidden/Contingent/Intangible Costs

    UNIT – 5 Innovation and Future Approaches in Sustainability (6 Hours)


    (a) Nature as a role model – Biomimicry
    (b) The future of energy and Circular Economy
    (c) Sustainable Development in the Developing world
    (d) Sustainable design and sustainable cities
    (e) Business sustainability initiatives
    (f) An emerging sustainability Mind-set and wellbeing
    Total (30 Hours)

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    Books:
    1. An Introduction to Sustainable Development – Jennifer A. Elliott
    Reference Book
    1. Our Planet, Consumption and Wellbeing – Dr Sumit Roy
    2. Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered. Author: E. F. Schumacher
    3. Capitalism at the Crossroads by Stuart L Hart
    4. Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability by Paul Hawken
    5. The Dreams of the Earth by Thomas Berry
    6. Making Peace with the Earth by Vandana Shiva

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