Environment and Business a 留

36048

田中　章司郎

2.00単位

1年

2022年度前期

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are the international development goals from 2016 to 2030, which was adopted by the UN Sustainable Development Summit held in September 2015 consisting of 17 goals and 169 targets in order to eradicate poverty and realize a sustainable world.
The stakeholders are not only world citizens and nations, but also corporations through business in a sustainable manner.
"Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)," "Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG)" Criteria, and "Creating Shared Value (CSV)" are business abbreviations to be used in terms of SDGs.
We will explore environment and business in the following three segments. First we review and look into several economic and social approaches to environment in the past as background knowledge. In the second segment, we learn laws in nature, the laws of which shape and constrain renewable ecological resource usages. In the third part, we try to draw a lesson how we can manage environment and business in a sustainable economy in the context of SDGs.
There are no conclusive solutions expected in this hugely-spread multidimensional area, but we will try to heavily expose and address existing problems in the environment and business.

a) being able to list three big names on the principles of human population
b) being able to present major world conferences and events related to environment
c) to understand the origin of the word “ecology,” and social Darwinism
d) to understand the principles and quantitative models in nature
e) being able to produce his/her own suggestions about a sustainable economy and SDGs

Analytical skills, Identifying issues to be solved, Literacy of human and natural environment　

1. Development, Protection, or Conservation: Which Standpoint?
2. Al Gore’s View on Environment and Business
3. Major World Events and Conferences and the Proposals
4. Environmental Movements in History (1) - Heckel’s Monist League
5. Environmental Movements in History (2) - First Green Party
6. Environmental Movements in History (3) - Social Darwinism
7. The Three Views on Human Population Growth
8. Laws in Nature (1) - Modeling Population Growth
9. Laws in Nature (2) - Logistic Equation
10. Laws in Nature (3) - Food Chain and Pray-Predator Model
11. Sixty Opportunities and Renewable Resources for Business
12. Can We Manage Our Business Activities in a Sustainable Economy?　
13. UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
14. How to implement the SDGs: by Citizens
15. How to implement the SDGs: in Business

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Students will be required to look into the themes through internet and/or in library and be prepared for in-class discussion of the scheduled topic, say, for half an hour or more.

References will be presented to students occasionally in class.

Ditto.

Exams not done during regular exam period.　

Grades will be evaluated by: 1) results of quiz and participation in discussions (25%); 2) presentations (25%); 3) report submissions on selected topics (50%). The reports on cardinal issues will get feed-back with scores.

Knowledge of mathematics, especially analysis, should be helpful to understand ‘Laws in Nature’ topics, but not be particularly required.