How does globalization, international trade and development affect people and the environment in different parts of the world? Which institutions and actors have the best opportunities to work for a sustainable development? How does the economic crisis affect initiatives concerning climate change and other global issues?
With a multidisciplinary analysis of different economic theories as environmental economics and ecological economics, historical examples, perspectives on equality and alternative development models, the course offers a broader understanding of the global economy’s role in today’s world.
gek@csduppsala.uu.se
Hej hej,
You may have noticed in the schedule the optional lecture scheduled for monday afternoon. There are two guest lecturers visting from Holland and the US, and will give an open lecture from 3.15pm on Resilience, Management and Adaptation. If you have the time, it should be an interesting afternoon. The venue is Hambergsalen in Geocentrum.
Trevlig helg och första advent, and cycle safely!
Christian and Timothée
Dear class,
Next Wednesday, we have the privilege to spend one hour of questions and answers with Ben Dyson (http://www.bendyson.com/), the founder and director of Positive Money (http://www.positivemoney.org.uk/), a non-profit research and campaign group working to raise awareness of the connections between our current monetary and banking system and some of today's biggest social, economic and environmental challenges.
For this session, we will ask you to come to class with 1 question you would like to ask Ben. The topic being fairly complicated (but nonetheless extremely relevant to the various issues we have been facing during the semester), we advise you to cover all the literature in the Course Reader (especially the 97% Owned documentary).
Same as the Literature Review, upload your question on Student Portalen in the File Area 'Monetary Reform Questions', no later than December 5th, 16:00 (name your file as usual john.galt5).
We will spend the first hour watching Ben's previous lectures (The Problem: how bank creates money, and why we should care and The Solution: how we can fix our debt-based monetary system) before connecting with him after the break for the Q&A session.
We know the literature load may be slightly above average in amount, but trust us on this one, this is an expertise you will definitely be glad to have!
Good luck!
Timothée and Christian
Helllo All,
This wednesday we have our second workshop, which will focus on complimentary currencies with Uppsala as the case, building on last wednesday's lecture with Phillip. As for the first workshop, there is no reading in the Course Reader, but instead you are asked to read the following list of short articles (and one video).
* Community Currency Guide; http://cemusstudent.se/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Community-Currency-Guide.pdf
* Overwiew of Community Currencies; http://qoin.org/community-currencies/
* Bristol Banks on Alternative Pound (Guardian); http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/sep/21/bristol-banks-alternative-pound-retailers
* How to Start a Community Currency; http://www.shareable.net/blog/how-to-start-a-community-currency
* Alternative Currencies - A True Story; http://vimeo.com/10364866
* One further atricle or reference of your choice, to deepen your understanding.
They are all fairly quick and easy reads, so please make sure to read them. The value of the workshop to you all will increase from a more diverse and indepth knowledge on the topic going into it.
Also the instructions and the concept tree we will use during the workshop are now available. Feel free to check it out, and start researching the concepts you don't know.
Christian and Timothée
Dear class,
(1) After several comments in the evaluation of Block 2 expressing the desire of exploring the concept of corporate social responsibility from a business perspective, we decided to focus Monday's lecture (November 19th) on this topic. For this task, we have the immense honor to receive Cecilia Mark-Herbert from the department of Economics at SLU. Cecilia works as an associate professor with research and teaching in marketing and environmental management aimed at Corporate responsibility. Talking from experience, she makes her lectures very participative, energetic and highly interesting!
Consequently, - and especially since one part of the lecture will focus on a case study - we will ask you to read the following piece of literature for Cecilia's lecture:
A Triple Bottom Line to Ensure Corporate Responsibility
Sustainable Business Development A case study of the international logistics industry
Communicating Corporate Social Responsibility - Brand management
(2) The lecture on Wednesday November 21st has also been modified. Please check the new schedule! For this lecture, we will use the Course Reader part on Economic Resilience as well as the one on the Transition Movement.
Best,
Timothée and Christian