SD 2400: Principles of Sustainable Development
Fall 2015
Edwin Duncan Hall 315
Instructor: Dr. Jacqueline Ignatova
Office hours: Mon 12-1pm, Tues 10am-12pm, Wed 3:30-5pm, and by appointment in LLA 209
Contact: jignatova@appstate.edu
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Part One: Introduction: What is sustainable development?
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Week Three: August 31st-September 4th: Actors and actions in sustainable development
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Lohman, Larry. 2010 (1990). “Whose Common Future?” pp.218-223 In Green Planet Blues, 4th
ed. Philadelphia: Westview Press, 2010.
Part Two: Population v. consumption debate
Week Four: [Holiday Sept 7th ] September 9th& 11th: Sustainable development in a “full world”
**Film screening Friday, September 11th**
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Conca, Ken and Geoffrey Dabelko, eds. “The Debate at Stockholm.” In Green Planet Blues,
4th ed., pp.17-22. Philadelphia: Westview Press, 2010.
Daly, Herman. 2007. “Limits to Growth”, “Economics in a Full World” and “Can We Grow
Our Way to an Environmentally Sustainable World?” In Ecological Economics and Sustainable
Development, pp. 9-24 and pp.55-60. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2008.
Hardin, Garrett. 1968. “Tragedy of the Commons,” Science 162, no.3859, pp.1243-48.
Ehrlich, Paul and Anne. 2008. “Too Many People, Too Much Consumption,” available at:
http://e360.yale.edu/feature/too_many_people_too_much_consumption/2041/.
Film: GrowthBusters: Hooked on Growth
Week Five: September 14th-18th: Consumption
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Rogers, Heather. 2005. “The Golden Age of Waste,” pp.102-127. In Gone Tomorrow: The
Hidden Life of Garbage. New York: The New Press.
Illich, Ivan. 2010. “Needs,” pp.95-110. In The Development Dictionary. London: Zed Books.
Clapp, Jennifer. “The Distancing of Waste: Overconsumption in a Global Economy,” pp.
155-176. In Confronting Consumption, edited by Thomas Princen, Michael Maniates, and Ken
Conca. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002.
Week Six: September 21st-25th: Development and the Global South
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Escobar, Arturo. “Introduction: Development and the Anthropology of Modernity,” pp.312. In Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World. Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1995.
Part Three: Environmental justice
Week Seven: September 28th- October 2nd: The principles of environmental justice
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Bullard, Robert D. 2005. “Environmental Justice in the 21st Century,” pp.431-449. In
Debating the Earth: The Environmental Politics Reader, 2nd edition. Edited by John S. Dryzek and
David Schlosberg. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Nixon, Rob. “Introduction,” pp.1-22. In Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011.
Week Eight: October 5th-9th: Slow violence
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Kuletz, Valerie. “Invisible Spaces, Violent Places: Cold War and Militarized Landscapes,”
pp.237-260. In Violent Environments, Nancy Lee Peluso and Michael Watts, eds. Ithaca:
Cornell University Press, 2001.
Pellow, David Naguib. “Ghosts of the Green Revolution: Pesticides Poison the Global
South,” pp.147-184. In Resisting Global Toxics: Transnational Movements for Environmental Justice.
Cambridge: MIT Press, 2007.
Part Four: Extractivism
Week Nine: October 12th-16th: Extractivism as a way of life
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Acosta, Alberto. “Extractivism and Neoextractivism: Two Sides of the Same Curse,” pp.6186. In Beyond Development. Amsterdam: The Transnational Institute, 2013. Available at:
https://www.tni.org/en/briefing/beyond-development.
Klein, Naomi. “Beyond Extractivism,” pp.161-87. In This Changes Everything. New York:
Simon and Schuster, 2014.
Cordell, Dana, Jan-Olof Drangert, and Stuart White. “The Story of Phosphorus: Global
Food Security and Food for Thought.” Global Environmental Change 19, no.2 (2009): 292-305.
Week Ten: October 19th-23rd: Extractive industries
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Bozzi, Laura A. “Appalachia Coal: The Campaign to End Mountaintop Removal,” pp.14566. In Ending the Fossil Fuel Era, edited by Thomas Princen, Jack P. Manno, and Pamela L.
Martin. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2015.
Rich, Nathaniel. “Waterworld,” pp.30-35, 44-46. The New York Times Magazine. October 5,
2014.
Hvalkof, Søren. “Outrage in Rubber and Oil: Extractivism, Indigenous Peoples, and Justice
in the Upper Amazon,” pp.83-116. In People, Plants, and Justice: The Politics of Nature
Conservation, edited by Charles Zerner. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999.
Film: Crude
Week Eleven: October 26th-30th: Leave it in the ground
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Princen, Thomas, Jack P. Manno, and Pamela L. Martin. “The Problem,” pp.3-36. In Ending
the Fossil Fuel Era, edited by Thomas Princen, Jack P. Manno, and Pamela L. Martin.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2015.
Martin, Pamela L. “Global Governance from the Amazon: Leaving Oil Underground in
Yasuní National Park, Ecuador.” Global Environmental Politics 11, no.4 (2011): 22-42.
Part Five: Toward a sustainable future
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Week Thirteen: November 9th-13th: Individual v. collective action
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Maniates, Michael. 2002. “Individualization: Plant a Tree, Buy a Bike, Save the World?”
pp.43-66. In Confronting Consumption. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002.
Week Fourteen: November 16th-20th: Climate action and justice
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Klein, Naomi. “Blockadia,” pp.293-336. In This Changes Everything. New York: Simon and
Schuster, 2014.
Shaban, Hamza. “Climate Change Is an Opportunity to Dramatically Reinvent the
Economy.” The Atlantic. September 19, 2014, available at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/09/climate-change-is-an-opportunityto-dramatically-reinvent-the-economy/380429/.
Week Fifteen: Nov 23rd [Thanksgiving holiday Nov 25th&27th]: Ecovillages
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Litfin, Karen. 2014. Chapter 3: “Ecology: Living in the Circle of Life,” in Ecovillages, pp.3376.