Sustainability, Climate Change and Economics

• Topics

  • Introduction and Overview
  • Complexity and Sustainability
  • Reconceptualising Economics within Sustainability
  • Transitions to Sustainability
  • Reflexive Viability Analysis
  • Critical Overview of Existing Tools
  • Creating a sustainability accounting narrative
  • Sustainability-informed Management Accounting
  • Overview of New Developments in Business Informatics
  • Sustainability-informed System of National Accounts
  • A Sustainability-informed Taxation System
  • Summary, Overview and Student Presentations

• Study resources

  • Instructional Methods

    • Disscusion forum/Discussion Board
    • Online assignment submission
    • Podcasting/Leacture capture
    • Standard Media
    • Web links

  • Print Materials

    • Book of readings
    • Study guide

  • Online Materials

    • Online Assessment
    • Audio-Video streaming

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Special requirements

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  Additional materials

This innovative approach to economics focuses on policy implementation for climate action and sustainable development. It moves beyond conventional approaches by reframing economics, accounting and policy within sustainability principles, parameters and processes, so that climate-friendly actions and sustainable behaviours are rewarded, rather than penalised. The focus is on implementation through the re-evaluation of economic activities, the restructuring of accounting narratives, and the used of monitoring and management regimes that support continuous sustainability learning. The subject provides new relevance for many existing methods currently marginalised in conventional policy processes. Students will learn ways of thinking and techniques that utilise new information system technologies. Socio-cultural and biophysical understandings from other sciences are integrated in a range of theoretical and practical perspectives on complex issues that have local and international relevance. The skills developed will enhance the employment prospects for students with organisations that are keen to move beyond business-as-usual to embrace the new world of sustainability-informed accounting, governance, management and policy.

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• Assignment 1 - Essay 1 (35%)
• Assignment 2 - Essay 2 (35%)
• Assignment 3 - Presentation (30%)

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