814.501 (16W) Social Ecology and Sustainable Development
Overview
- Lecturer
- Course title german Social Ecology and Sustainable Development
- Type Lecture
- Hours per Week 2.0
- ECTS credits 4.0
- Registrations 41
- Organisational unit
- Language of instruction Englisch
- Course begins on 06.10.2016
- eLearning Go to Moodle course
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Lecture and discussionCourse content
Maintaining functioning interactions between socio-economic systems and their natural environment is a key challenge of sustainable development. This requires an interdisciplinary approach across natural, social and cultural sciences. What is the contribution that the scientific field of social ecology has to offer to these core issues of sustainable development? The lecture introduces the field, its basic conceptual approaches ‘social metabolism’ and ‘colonization of ecosystems’ and their application in sustainability studies. It uses the concepts to explore the evolution of resource use patterns and related sustainability problems from hunter-gatherer to industrial societies. The use of energy, materials and land, the role of important drivers of resource use (population, economic growth, technology) and different strategies to reduce resource use and environmental pressure (efficiency, dematerialization, de-growth) are discussed.Topics
- Concept of sustainability and its operationalization
- History of Social Ecology
- Concepts of society-nature interactions and their application
- Social metabolism
- Colonization of natural systems
- Approaches to study the physical economy
- Sustainability problems in different societies (modes of subsistence) across history
- Material and energy use and sustainable development
- Land use, landscapes and biodiversity
- Dematerialization and resource efficiency
- Demographic development and carrying capacity
Teaching objective
Students gain knowledge of basic concepts of social ecology and their application in sustainability studies. They develop critical understanding of sustainability problems and the potential and limitations of different strategies to meet these challenges.Literature
available in moodle courseExamination information
Im Fall von online durchgeführten Prüfungen sind die Standards zu beachten, die die technischen Geräte der Studierenden erfüllen müssen, um an diesen Prüfungen teilnehmen zu können.
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Grade / Grade grading schemePosition in the curriculum
- Master's degree programme Social and Human Ecology
(SKZ: 919, Version: 05W.1)
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Subject: Modul 1: Einführung in die Sozial- und Humanökologie
(Compulsory subject)
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Humanökologie und Soziale Ökologie (
2.0h VO / 3.0 ECTS)
- 814.501 Social Ecology and Sustainable Development (2.0h VO / 4.0 ECTS)
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Humanökologie und Soziale Ökologie (
2.0h VO / 3.0 ECTS)
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Subject: Modul 1: Einführung in die Sozial- und Humanökologie
(Compulsory subject)
- Master's degree programme Social and Human Ecology
(SKZ: 919, Version: 14W.1)
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Subject: PF1 Einführung in die Sozial- und Humanökologie
(Compulsory subject)
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PF1.1 Soziale Ökologie und Nachhaltige Entwicklung (
0.0h VO / 4.0 ECTS)
- 814.501 Social Ecology and Sustainable Development (2.0h VO / 4.0 ECTS)
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PF1.1 Soziale Ökologie und Nachhaltige Entwicklung (
0.0h VO / 4.0 ECTS)
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Subject: PF1 Einführung in die Sozial- und Humanökologie
(Compulsory subject)
Equivalent courses for counting the examination attempts
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Wintersemester 2018/19
- 814.501 VO Social Ecology and Sustainable Development (2.0h / 4.0ECTS)
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Wintersemester 2017/18
- 814.501 VO Social Ecology and Sustainable Development (2.0h / 4.0ECTS)
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Wintersemester 2015/16
- 814.501 VO Social Ecology and Sustainable Development (2.0h / 4.0ECTS)
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Wintersemester 2014/15
- 814.501 VO Soziale Ökologie und Nachhaltige Entwicklung (2.0h / 4.0ECTS)
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Wintersemester 2013/14
- 814.501 VO Humanökologie und Soziale Ökologie (2.0h / 3.0ECTS)
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Wintersemester 2012/13
- 814.501 VO Humanökologie und Soziale Ökologie (2.0h / 3.0ECTS)