Course description
Globalization, in particular economic globalization, has important impacts on the environment that have to be considered in order to achieve sustainable development.
The course aims at introducing the students to sustainable development concept in relation to globalization, with a special focus on environmental aspects. Environ-mental issues have gained center-stage in economic analysis and policy-making and their urgency has opened new opportunities in terms of technological innovation and entrepreneurship.
Through an interdisciplinary perspective, the course will provide students with competences and instruments for the understanding and analysis of sustainability issues and for the development of solutions oriented towards the promotion of sustainable development processes both at a local, national and international level. A design thinking lab on sustainable development in Venice will allow to put in practice what has been learnt during the course.

Learning outcomes
The course focuses on environmental issues in a globalized contest within the framework of sustainable development. For this purpose the course will cover different themes, starting from the introduction of the concepts of sustainable development and globalization in relation to the environment, exploring then the new concept of Green and Circular Economy and put it in practice through a design thinking lab. The current pandemics and its relation to sustainable development will be also taken into consideration

THEME I – SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT CONCEPT
THEME II – GLOBALIZATION AND THE ENVIRONMENT: THE CHALLENGE OF CLIMATE CHANGE
THEME III – SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN PRACTICE: INTRODUCTION TO DESIGN THINKING
THEME IV – SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN PRACTICE

Teaching methods
The overall structure of the course and its thematic organisation have been developed by Ilda Mannino (TEN Program - Venice International University) in collaboration with Ignazio Musu (Ca’ Foscari University, TEN Program - Venice International University). Ilda Mannino is also coordinator of the course.
The course is organised around different thematic areas taught by Ilda Mannino and Ignazio Musu. An external expert will guide the design thinking lab.

Course Requirements
Students will be expected to do the required readings and to attend class regularly. Attendance is compulsory for all students. Required readings will be designated on a weekly basis according to the themes listed in the course outline. Students will be also encouraged to find additional material for their final project by searching the Internet and accessing suggested websites.
Field trips and seminars related to the course can be arranged.

Ca’ Foscari students enrolled in Bachelor degrees - Management or Economics Department can attend this course and final exam (auditors are not admitted) however they cannot include it in their “piano di studi” as this course is equivalent to a Master degree course.

As this course is considered equivalent to the course “Pianificazione Strategica e Management della Sostenibilità” and awarded 12 CFU, Ca’ Foscari Master degree students – Management Department must integrate the 40 hours of in-class tuition with a minimum of 40 hours in seminars, field trips and VIULECTURES*.

*VIULECTURES is an initiative promoted by VIU to provide a platform for interna-tional and local professors to discuss key and current issues.
Participation in the VIULECTURES is compulsory and counts towards the integra-tion of 40 hours in seminars/field trips for students enrolled in Master degrees of the Department of Management.

Evaluation methods
Module Essays – There will be a short essay requested to each student for each module – 45% of the final grade.
Final project – There will be a group research project to develop, to present in a written group report and through an oral presentation in class – 45% of the final grade.
Class participation – Overall class participation, in terms of both attendance and interaction, will count for 10% of the final grade.

Bibliography
Common M., Stagl S., 1994. Ecological Economics.
Hertwich E. G., 2005. “Consumption and the Rebound Effect. An Industrial Ecology Perspective”, Journal of Industrial Ecology, Volume 9, Number 1–2
Jackson T., 2005. “Live Better by Consuming Less? Is There a “Double Dividend” in Sustainable Consumption?”, Journal of Industrial Ecology, Vol. 9, n. 1–2
Lifset R. & Graedel T.E., 2002. Industrial ecology: goals and definitions in A hand-book of industrial ecology, Robert U. Ayres, Leslie Ayres
Lomborg B., 2017. The Mis-Measure of Development.
Nordhaus W., 2013. The Climate Casino, Yale University Press.
Reid A.J. et al., 2017. Post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals still neglecting their environmental roots in the Anthropocene, Environmental Science and Policy 77, pp 179–184
Rodrik D., 2011. The globalization Paradox, Norton & co.
UN, 1992. Rio Declaration.
UN, 2000. The Millennium Declaration.
UN, 2012. The future we want.
UN, 2019.The Sustainable Development Report 2019.
UNSDSN, IEEP, 2019. 2019 Europe Sustainable Development Report. Towards a strategy for achieving Sustainable Development Goals in the European Union.
Weng M. L., 2017. Inside the sustainable consumption theoretical toolbox: Critical concepts for sustainability, consumption, and marketing, Journal of Business Re-search 78 (2017) 69–80.
World Bank, 2011. Inclusive Green Growth.

Schedule
Theme I- Sustainable Development Concept

Week 2 – February 22
Tuesday, February 23
Introduction to the Sustainable Development Concept
Dr Ilda Mannino (TEN Program, Venice International University)

Required Readings: Book Ecological Economics, by Michael Common and Sigrid Stagl, Chapter 4; UN (1992), Rio Declaration.

Thursday, February 25
Development of the SD concept: Rio 92
Dr Ilda Mannino (TEN Program on Sustainability, Venice International University)

Required Readings: Book Ecological Economics, by Michael Common and Sigrid Stagl, Chapter 10: 10.1 and 10.4; UN (1992)

Week 3 – March 01
Tuesday, March 2
Development of the SD concept: from Rio 92 to the SDGs
Dr Ilda Mannino (TEN Program on Sustainability, Venice International University)

Required Readings: undefined undefined, The Millennium Declaration; undefined UN 2012, The future we want.

To be read before the next class: undefined

Thursday, March 5
The Sustainable Development Goals: going in depth
Dr Ilda Mannino (TEN Program on Sustainability, Venice International University)

Required Readings:
Choose one SDG to present it in class

Week 4 – March 8
Tuesday, March 9
The Sustainable Development Goals: going in depth - part II
Dr Ilda Mannino (TEN Program on Sustainability, Venice International University)

Required Readings:
Reid A.J. et al. (2017). Post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals still neglecting their environmental roots in the Anthropocene, Environmental Science and Policy 77, pp 179–184; Lomborg B. (2017). The Mis-Measure of Development; Swain R. B. (2017). A critical analysis of the Sustainable Development Goals

Thursday, March 11
The Sustainable Development Goals: critics to SD
Dr Ilda Mannino (TEN Program on Sustainability, Venice International University)

Required Readings:
Latouche S. (2003). Sustainable development as a paradox. Symposium Baltic Sea 2003. Gdansk, Kaliningrad, Tallinn, Helsinki and Stockholm; Raworth K (2014). Will these Sustainable Development Goals get us into the doughnut (aka a safe and just space for humanity)? Guest post, August 11, 2014 undefined Robra B., Heikkurinen P. (2019). Degrowth and the Sustainable Devel-opment Goals, in Decent Work and Economic Growth, W. Leal Filho et al. (eds.).

Week 5 – March 15
Tuesday, March 16
SDGs and pandemics: impacts and opportunities
Dr Ilda Mannino (TEN Program on Sustainability, Venice International University)

Required readings: Font Vivanco D., McDowall W., Freire-González J., Kempd R., van der Voet E. (2016). The foundations of the environmental rebound effect and its contribution towards a general framework, Ecological Economics 125 (2016) 60–69.

Assignment 1: essay SD concept by March 31

Theme II - Sustainable Development in Practice: SDG12

Thursday, March 18
Focus on SDGs 12: Sustainable Consumption and Production and Circular Economy
Dr Ilda Mannino (TEN Program on Sustainability, Venice International University)

Required Readings: Lifset R. & Graedel T.E. (2002). Industrial ecology: goals and definitions in A handbook of industrial ecology, Robert U. Ayres, Leslie Ayres (eds.).

Week 6 – March 22
Tuesday, March 23
Focus on SDGs 12: Sustainable Consumption and Production and Circular Economy
Dr Ilda Mannino (TEN Program on Sustainability, Venice International University)

Required Readings: Life cycle assessment Part 1: Framework, goal and scope defi-nition, inventory analysis, and applications; Martin Geissdoerfer M., Savaget P., Bocken N. M.P., Erik Jan Hultink E. J. (2017).The Circular Economy: A new sus-tainability paradigm?, Journal of Cleaner Production 143, pp. 757-768; Keith R. S. (2018). Circles, spirals, pyramids and cubes: why the circular economy cannot work, Sustain Sci 13:479–492.

Assignment 1: essay on Sustainable Development by March 23

Thursday, March 25
Focus on SDGs 12: Sustainable Consumption: Consumers and Demand Role
Dr Ilda Mannino (TEN Program on Sustainability, Venice International University)

Required Readings: Jackson T. (2005). Live Better by Consuming Less? Is There a “Double Dividend” in Sustainable Consumption?”, Journal of Industrial Ecology, Vol. 9, n. 1–2; Lifset R. (2005). Moving from Products to Services, Journal of In-dustrial Ecology, Vol. 4, n. 1; Lim W. M. (2017). Inside the sustainable consump-tion theoretical toolbox: Critical concepts for sustainability, consumption, and mar-keting, Journal of Business Research 78 (2017) 69–80; Lamberton C. (2016). Col-laborative consumption: a goal-based framework, Current Opinion in Psychology 2016, 10:55–59.

Week 7 – March 29
Tuesday, March 30
Introduction to Design Thinking
Marianna Carbone, Design thinking experts

Thursday, April 1
Design Thinking | Understanding part I: Introduction to the Research Tools
Marianna Carbone, Design thinking expert

Assignment 2: essay on Sustainable Consumption and Production by April 2

Theme III- Globalization and the Environment: the challenge of climate change (SDG13) and biodiversity protection (SDG14)

Week 8 – April 12
Tuesday, April 13
Problem and impacts of Climate Change
Prof. Ignazio Musu (Ca’ Foscari University and TEN Program, Venice International University)

Required Readings: W. Nordhaus, The Climate Casino, Yale University Press, 2013, chapters 1 to 12.

Thursday, April 15
Strategies to Slow Climate Change
Prof. Ignazio Musu (Ca’ Foscari University and TEN Program, Venice International University)

Required Readings: W. Nordhaus, The Climate Casino, Yale University Press, 2013, chapters 13 to 26.

Week 9 – April 19
Tuesday, April 20
Globalization and Biodiversity
Prof. Ignazio Musu (Ca’ Foscari University and TEN Program, Venice International University)

Required Readings: C.Perrings, Our Uncommon Heritage, Cambridge University Press, 2014,

Thursday, April 22
Biodiversity and pandemics
Prof. Ignazio Musu (Ca’ Foscari University and TEN Program, Venice International University)

Required Readings: Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES),Workshop on Biodiversity and Pandemics, Workshop Report, oc-tober, 2020

Theme IV- Sustainable Development in Practice: design thinking lab

Week 10 – April 26
Tuesday, April 27
Design Thinking | Ideation: Idea Generation
Marianna Carbone, Design thinking expert

Thursday, April 29
Students’ work on Ideation
Dr Ilda Mannino (TEN Program on Sustainability, Venice International University)

Assignment 3: essay on Climate Change and Biodiversity by April 30

Week 11 – May 3
Tuesday, May 4
Design Thinking | Prototyping: Testing the Solution
Marianna Carbone, Design thinking expert

Thursday, May 6
Revision of Students’ work on prototypes
Dr Ilda Mannino (TEN Program on Sustainability, Venice International University)

Week 12 – May 10
Tuesday, May 11
Revision of Students’ work on prototypes
Dr Ilda Mannino (TEN Program on Sustainability, Venice International University)

Thursday, May 13
Design Thinking | Implementation: How to Develop the Solutions
Marianna Carbone, Design thinking expert

Week 13 – May 17
Tuesday, May 18
Revision of Students’ work on solutions
Dr Ilda Mannino (TEN Program on Sustainability, Venice International University)

Thursday, May 20
Revision of Students’ work on solutions
Dr Ilda Mannino (TEN Program on Sustainability, Venice International University)

Week 13 (exams) – May 25
Tuesday, May 26
Presentation of Students’ work
Dr Ilda Mannino (TEN Program on Sustainability, Venice International University)

Thursday, May 28
Presentation of Students’ work
Dr Ilda Mannino (TEN Program on Sustainability, Venice International University)