Prosperity, People and Planet: Conceptual Frameworks, Professor Robert Costanza

Описание: This module will introduce students to the history of thinking about prosperity, wellbeing, and quality of life. This will include key intellectual debates about the relationship between humanity and the rest of nature, and how natural, economic and social approaches to prosperity can be integrated.

It will introduce students to IGP’s work on natural prosperity metrics. Using a combination of economic approaches with other social science methods, data analytics, earth systems observation, and related approaches, it will investigate key ideas about the nature of ecological systems and critically examine current approaches to economics, climate, and sustainability.

The module will introduce students to debates on economic pluralism, wellbeing economies, ecological economics, ecosystems theory, socio-natural systems, natural capital, ecosystem services, environmental accounting, carbon trading, the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Green-, De-and A-growth, doughnut economics, and other related topics. It will bring these ideas together by arguing that there is a need to generate new models, values, and relationships to design and build a prosperous, sustainable and inclusive future for the planet.

Led by Professor Robert Costanza and Dr Ida Kubiszewski

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