Section: PART 1 Introduction to sustainability | Sustainability in Transport and Logistics

Section outline

- Select activity Warm-up: Sustainability – basic concepts
  
  Warm-up: Sustainability – basic concepts Workshop
  
  Students must
  
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  Consider what you think sustainability means to you.
  Write three words or very short phrases to express your thoughts.
  Use Jamboard, Mentimeter, Canva or other to sum up and discuss with students.
- Select activity History of sustainable development
  
  History of sustainable development File
  
  Students must
  
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  Please read the paper and visit the website:
  Jacobus A. Du Pisani Professor of History (2006) Sustainable development – historical roots of the concept, Environmental Sciences, 3:2, 83-96, DOI: 10.1080/15693430600688831, https://doi.org/10.1080/15693430600688831
  https://www.sd-commission.org.uk/pages/history_sd.html
- Select activity Sustainable development: basics
  
  Sustainable development: basics File
  
  Students must
  
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  Please read the materials and visit the website:
  1. Beckerman, W. “ ‘Sustainable Development’: Is it a Useful Concept?” Environmental Values 3, no. 3, (1994): 191–209. doi:10.3197/096327194776679700.
  2. https://www.sd-commission.org.uk/pages/what-is-sustainable-development.html
- Select activity Millennium Development Goals
  
  Millennium Development Goals File
  
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  Please read about the Millenium Development Goals. You can access the report also via link:
  https://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/2015_MDG_Report/pdf/MDG%202015%20rev%20(July%201).pdf
- Select activity A model of the Doughnut of social and planetary boundaries
  
  A model of the Doughnut of social and planetary boundaries URL
  
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  We can distinguish three basic dimensions of sustainability: social, environmental and economic.
  Discuss it in context of the new concept of sustainable development called the Doughnut of social and planetary boundaries.
  https://www.kateraworth.com/doughnut/