Professor E Neumayer, STC. S503. Other teachers involved: Dr Salvatore Di Falco, KGS. K204, Dr Charles Palmer KGS. K205, Dr Perkins, STC. S413

This course is a core course for MSc Environment and Development. It may be taken as an option by students on MSc Environmental Policy and Regulation, MSc Biomedicine, Bioscience and Society, MSc Development Studies and MSc Development Management if there are available spaces (this is a capped course). Students who have not completed a course in first year undergraduate level Economics might find it useful to audit EC100 Economics A.

MT: Environment-economy linkages and the concept of sustainable economic development; The 'source'-side: Resource availability for sustained economic growth; The 'sink'-side: Economic growth and the environment; Trade, investment and the environment; Measuring progress towards sustainability: Genuine Savings (GS), the Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare (ISEW) and the Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI); The concept of ecological modernisation; Technological lock-in, innovation and system transformation; Corporate social responsibility strategy and greenwash.

LT: The concept of ecological footprints; Resource Abundance, Conflicts and Economic Development; Population growth and the environment; Adaptation to climate change in developing countries; Land use and forestry; Deforestation, poverty and climate change; Energy Use and Equity; Bioenergy in developing countries; Ecosystem services, resilience and biodiversity.

The course will be taught through a combination of 20 weekly lectures (1.5 hours) and 20 weekly seminars (1 hour).

MT: E Neumayer, Weak versus Strong Sustainability: Exploring the Limits of Two Opposing Paradigms, 3rd edn, Edward Elgar, 2010; E Neumayer, Greening Trade and Investment: Environmental Protection without Protectionism, Earthscan, 2001. M Blowfield and A Murray, Corporate Responsibility: A Critical Introduction, Oxford University Press, 2008.

LT: R Lopez and M Toman, Economic Development and Environmental Sustainability. Columbia University Press, 2006. E Barbier, Natural resources and economic development, Cambridge University Press, 2005.

A three-hour written examination (75%) and a 3,000 word extended essay (25%). (5,000 word extended essay (25%) for students of MSc Environment and Development not writing a dissertation).