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Planning for Sustainable Development

This course is dedicated to improving and developing your English language proficiency in your expertise field. MIT and its educators are here at the head of the service. You would explore policy and planning for the sustainable development field. This free online course critically analyzes the concept of sustainability as a procedure of social, organizational, and political development from the U.S. and Europe case studies. It also examines pathways to sustainability through discussions on ecological modernization, sustainable technology development, global and intergenerational justice, and democratic governance.

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Course at a glance

Institution: MIT
Subject: Urban Studies and Planning
Level: Graduate
Prerequisites: None
Language: English
Video Transcript: English


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About this course

This class initiates from three assumptions. In detail, The first is that any step to do something regarding sustainable development will involve change on a wide scale.

The second working belief is that the way to understand how to promote change and development is to attempt to do it. We will perform in the class with the Environmental Programs Office, MIT, and the Community Planning Department of the City of Cambridge on actions to improve sustainability also the City’s climate change protection plan.

The last assumption is that a successful step to managing climate change, and sustainable development broadly, is unlikely to derive from exclusive support on established forms of state regulation.

We will develop a method that is rooted in communities and that brings performers into interaction across organizational boundaries. The course will help you understand and suppose about how to engage the potential for a shift that exists in these sorts of relationships within and among organizations.

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Parts of this course

This class is classified into two parts. The first one provides a general introduction to sustainable development issues. The second part is focused on a workshop that takes an action on sustainable development and various groups try to enable change.

The course sessions are planned to be in groups, with interaction, particularly along with our fellows in the Environmental related Programs and the Community of Planning Department.

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Course Calendar

Part 1 - Framing Sustainability in MIT course by applypedia

Part 1 - Framing Sustainability: Global Problems and Local Actions

1 - Introduction and Overview
Review of Assignment

2 - Some Prominent Ways of Framing Sustainability

3 - Framing Sustainability Locally: An International Comparison

4 - Framing Sustainability as Local Action: Cambridge and MIT
Guest: Rosalie Anders, Cambridge Department of Community Planning Steven Lanou, MIT Environmental Programs Office

5 - Understanding and Managing Change in Organizational Settings

6 - Sustainability and Innovation

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Part 2 - Local Sustainability Initiatives: Networks, Designs, and Communities of Practice

1 - Promoting Sustainability in State and Local Government
Guests
Kim Lundgren - ICELI
Ian Finlayson - Massachusetts State Sustainability Office

2 - Sustainable Action at a University
Guests
Laxmi Rao - Project Manager, MIT Facilities Office
Jaclyn Emig - Longwood Green Campus Initiative Program Coordinator

3 - Preliminary Presentations and In-class Critique
Guest Critic - John de Monchaux

4 - Building a Story about Change

5 - Working Session

6 - Final Presentations

Do you want to read more about this subject?
Here are the various articles for learning more about this topic.

  • Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development. Read
  • The Multiple Dimensions of Sustainable Development. Read
  • Beyond the Limits: Confronting Global Collapse, Envisioning a Sustainable Future. Read
  • Sustainability: An Economist’s Perspective. Read
  • Intergenerational Justice and the Chain of Obligation. Read
  • Development as Freedom. Read
  • Agenda 21: The Earth Summit Strategy to Save Our Planet. Read
  • Review the other links below. Read
  • Cambridge Climate Change Protection Plan. Read
  • Report of the Energy Research Council. Read
  • Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and Identity. Read
  • Communities of Practice: the Organizational Frontier. Read
  • Innovation the Missing Dimension. Read
  • Experimenting with Sustainable Transport Innovations: A Workbook for Strategic Niche Management. Read
  • Check out other materials on ICELI and the Massachusetts State Sustainability Program. Read
  • Problem to Solution(s): Change Agency Competencies. Read
  • Storylines: Craftartists' Narratives of Identity. Read

Lecture Notes

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Assignments

There is only one assignment for this course. It is a group design task that managed the performance of Cambridge’s climate change protection plan. These projects will be developed in partnership with the Community Planning Department. 
Improvement reports and presentations will assume throughout the term.
 

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About the Instructors

Prof. David Laws and Emeritus Prof. Martin Rein;

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