Environment and Business a 留

36041

田中　章司郎

2.00単位

1年

2023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.
Sixty percent of GDP, eighty percent of the capital, and ninety percent of the employment are sustained by business sector (OECD.stat). The main stakeholder of SDGs should be corporations.
"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. Firstly we review and look into several approaches to environment in the past as background knowledge focusing on environmental resource and human population. 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 establish profitable business models 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.
Due to the fast-paced development of the world SDGs, the contents of this lecture are subject to change (update).

a) being able to list three big names on the principles of human population as resource backgroud of environmental and business
b) to understand the origin of the word “ecology,” and social Darwinism
c) being able to present major world conferences and events related to environment
d) to look into how you can implement environmental factors to actual business with profit
e) being able to produce his/her own suggestions about profitable business models in terms of 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. Basic Movements in History (1) - Heckel’s Monist League
4. Basic Movements in History (2) - First Green Party
5. Basic Movements in History (3) - Social Darwinism
6. The Three Views on Human Population Growth and resource management: backgroud of environment and business
7. Laws in Nature - Modeling Population Growth and resource management
8. Major World Events and Conferences and the Proposals
9. Two Backbone Business Frameworks before SDGs by Kofi Annan
10. Sixty Opportunities and Renewable Resources for Business
11. Revisit to UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
12. What is "SDGs Wash?" How can we avoid it?　
13. Recyclable Product Design from the Beginning beyond 3R
14. Profitable Business Models: in Quest of Actual Practice
15. World without Poverty, Disparity, and Structural Violence in Sustainable Environment: What Should Be the Role of Daily 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.