Course code:
Academic year:
Course title:
Environmental policies and sustainability
Module:
1 - Environmental sociology
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Teacher 1:
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Reference sector:
Year of degree course:
second
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Total credits:
Workload
| Attività frontale: Lectures: |
30.0 |
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| Esercitazioni: Applied activities: |
0.0 |
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| Studio individuale: Individual work: |
95.0 |
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| Attività didattica a piccoli gruppi: Group work: |
0.0 |
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| Seminari: Seminars: |
0.0 |
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| Laboratori: Laboratories: |
0.0 |
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| TOTALE (voci sopra-elencate): TOTAL: |
125.0 |
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| Ore di lezione settimanali: |
6.0 |
Prerequisites:
Nothing.
Educational goals:
To acquire the skill of "reading" the interrelationships between humans and their environment and to understand the complexity of the environmental matters with the goal of changing human behaviour.
Course contents:
Concepts and issues of the environmental sociology. Environmental complexity: the emergence of the environmental problem. Current state of the environment. Principles of basic socio-environmental education: belonging to a community and its places and to nature; cycles, citizenship and participation, co-evolution, complexity, diversity, entropy, dynamic equilibrium, flux, future, uncertainty, interdependence, limits, local/global, possibility, precaution, quality of life, equality and justice, networking, interconnected systems, sustainability and sustainable development, unity and autonomy of nature. Environmental indicators. Case studies of good practices of sustainability.
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Teaching activities:
Assessment:
oral
Discussion of several issues dealt with in the course and an account of the texts read, showing the capacity to understand their basic elements and make connections with the topics of the course.
Teaching language:
Oral
Other information:
Non-attending students will have to substitute the lecture materials with a thorough reading of: A. Angelini, P. Pizzuto, Manuale di ecologia, sostenibilità ed educazione ambientale, FrancoAngeli, Milano.