SDPMC Course Reader

A copy of the Handbook forSustainability Book chapters can be found here :

The SDPMC course literature requires reading of the following books:

Holmes et al. (2011), The Common Cause Handbook, PIRC [pdf available]
Lilliesköld and Eriksson (2009), Handbook for Small Projects, Liber [available in cemus library]
Stibbe, A (2009), The Handbook of Sustainability Literacy: Skills for a changing world, Green Books

You will have to read ONE of the following books, choosing between

Chouinard, Yvon (2006), Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman, Penguin Books
Gladwell, Malcolm (2011), Outliers: The Story of Success, Little Brown and Company
Taylor, Keeanda-Tamahtta (2017). How We Get Free : Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective. Haymarket Books.

In addition to these books, there is also the course reader, which includes the following required and recommended texts as follows :

22nd January/ Course Introduction

Required Reading

(I) Robinson (2010) Changing Education Paradigms

Recommended Reading

Sanna Barrineau and Lakin Anderson (2018) Learning “betwixt and between”: Opportunities and challenges for student-driven partnership

Hald, Matilda, ed. 2011. Transcending Boundaries: How CEMUS Is Changing How We Teach, Meet and Learn.

23rd January / Workshop: Thinking in Systems

Required Reading

(I) Rockstrom et al (2009) Planetary Boundaries: Exploring the Safe Operating Space for Humanity

(II) Meadows (1999) Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System. The Sustainability Institute. Hartland.

(III) Stibbe et al (2014) The Hanbook of Sustainability Literacy. Chapters 11 and Chapter 23.

(IV) Chelsea Green Blog (2016) Why Title a Book “Parachuting Cats into Borneo”?

28th January / Workshop : Complexities of Sustainable Development

Required Reading

(I) Steffen, A. (2017, June 6) The Last Decade and You. Available at https://thenearlynow.com/the-last-decade-and-you-489a5375fbe8

(II) Steffen, A. (2017, December 17) Speed is Everything. Available at https://thenearlynow.com/on-climate-speed-is-everything-5bc47203bc7a

(III) Leach et al. (2010) Dynamic Sustainabilities : Technology, Environment and Social Justice. New York. Earthscan. pp1-13.

(IV) Pissani (2006) Sustainable development – Historical roots of the Concept. Environmental Sciences 3:2, pp 83-96.

(V) Open Working Group of the General Assembly on Sustainable Development Goals (2015) Open Working Group Proposal for Sustainable Development Goals

Recommended Reading

(I) Latouche, Serge. 2003. Sustainable Development as a Paradox. University of Paris

29th September / Workshop : Creativity, Innovation and Generating Ideas that Matter

Required Reading

(I) Christensen, Ojomo and van Bever. 2017. Africa’s New Generation of Innovators. Harvard Business Review. Available at:

https://hbr.org/2017/01/africas-new-generation-of-innovators

(II) Birsel, 2017. To Come Up with a Good Idea, Start by Imagining the Worst Idea Possible. Harvard Business Review. Available at:

https://hbr.org/2017/08/to-come-up-with-a-good-idea-start-by-imagining-the-worst-idea-possible?autocomplete=true

(III) Kelley, 2012. How to Build Your Creative Confidence.

https://youtu.be/16p9YRF0l-g

30th January / Lecture : Regenerative Sustainable Development : Project Management and Communication

4th February / Workshop : Pluralist Economics

Recommended Reading :

5th February / Presentation Techniques

Required Reading

(I) John S. Dryzek & Alex Y. Lo (2015). Reason and rhetoric in climate communication. Environmental Politics, 24:1, 1-16. (Includes reading instructions to be prepared prior to the lecture)

II) McKenzie-Mohr, D. (2010). Communication, Creating Effective Messages. A chapter from the online book Fostering Sustainable Behaviour

III) Lunsford, Ruszkiewicz & Walters (2012). Everything’s an Argument. 6th Edition. Chapter 15. Please note that an Adobe pdf-viewer is needed to access the file (it’s free on adobe.com) and the password”rhetoric”.

6th February / Literature Seminar I : Challenges and Opportunities in Sustainable Development

Come prepared to discuss your assignment and course literature up to this point in the course, in addition to the following reading :

Dryzek, J., 2013. The Politics of the Earth: Environmental Discourses. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 3-23 (Part I: Introduction).

11th February / Workshop : Preparing for Projects

(I) Centre for Sustainable Transformation (2016) 7 Ways to Approach Change

(II) Eriksson and Lillieskold (2010) The Handbook for Small Projects – Introduction. Saharan Printing. Egypt. pp7-19 and pp23-31

(III) Hodgson, D. & Cicmil, S. (2006). New Possibilities for PM Theory: A Critical Engagement. Project Management Institute. 37:3, pp. 111-122.

(IV) Stibbe et al. (2009). The Handbook of Sustainability Literacy – Introduction. Green Books Ltd, Devon. pp 9-16

12th February / Workshop : Methodologies for Projects

13th February / Workshop : Project Formation

18th February / Workshop : Project Game Plan I

19th February / Workshop : Project Game Plan II

20th February / Workshop : Team Dynamics

Recommended Reading

With added notes from our guest lecture Warren on what you can expect from the different readings!

Skim through the chapters in this book which addresses sustainable development in the arctic with particular attention paid to indigenous communities/ideas/case studies. It gives students another perspective on Sweden and “The Nordics” as well as another perspective on sustainable development. The editor is based at The Arctic University of Norway and may even make an interesting speaker.

Gjertsen, Tor Arne. The Gargia-Oktemtsy Conferences 2004-14. Knowledge and capacity building for sustainable business and community development in the Circumpolar North. 2015. Available at https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/SCS/issue/view/263/showToc

The Indigenous Majority Group’s policy brief on the UN’s proposed sustainable development agenda. This policy document is very interesting because it provides a behind-the-scenes peek into how the building of sustainability development policy works with different stakeholders and shows what kind of input a historically overlooked/excluded stakeholder can contribute. https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/7036IPMG%20Policy%20Brief%20Working%20Draft%202015.pdf

An academic criticism of the UN’s sustainable development goals for failing to include LGBT people, Mills (2015) ‘Leave No One Behind’: Gender, Sexuality and the Sustainable Development Goals.

https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/bitstream/handle/123456789/7104/ER154_LeaveNoOneBehindGenderSexualityandtheSDGs.pdf

Here something similar in a prettier blue and red format: https://www.stonewall.org.uk/sites/default/files/sdg-guide_2.pdf

Two texts that focuses on the evolving strategies for working toward gender equality in management, within a Swedish and Indian context – the comparison of the two is very interesting!

Anna Wahl, Pia Höök, (2007) “Changes in working with gender equality in management in Sweden”, Equal Opportunities International, Vol. 26 Issue: 5, pp.435-448, https://doi.org/10.1108/02610150710756649

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/229116155_Gender_issues_in_project_management_A_subtlety

And here is a little list of recent academic articles on gender equality and sustainable development written by a diverse range of researchers:

Dhar, S. (2018). Gender and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Indian Journal of Gender Studies, 25(1), 47–78. https://doi.org/10.1177/0971521517738451

Endalcachew Bayeh (2016). The role of empowering women and achieving gender equality to the sustainable development of Ethiopia,

Pacific Science Review B: Humanities and Social Sciences, 2(1), 37-42 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psrb.2016.09.013

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405883116300508

Bina Agarwal (2018). Gender equality, food security and the sustainable development goals. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability,

34, 26-32. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2018.07.002.

Dankelman I. (2012) Women Advocating for Sustainable Livelihoods and Gender Equality on the Global Stage. In: Harcourt W. (eds) Women Reclaiming Sustainable Livelihoods. Gender, Development and Social Change series. Palgrave Macmillan, London

Young, G., Fort, L., & Danner, M. (1994). MOVING FROM `THE STATUS OF WOMEN’ TO `GENDER INEQUALITY’: CONCEPTUALISATION, SOCIAL INDICATORS AND AN EMPIRICAL APPLICATION. International Sociology, 9(1), 55–85. https://doi.org/10.1177/026858094009001005

25th February / Workshop : Facilitation and Elevator Pitching

Required Reading

(I) Seeds for Change (2009) Facilitating Meetings. Available at: http://seedsforchange.org.uk/short_facil.pdf

(II) 350.org (2018) Trainings. Available at: https://trainings.350.org/

(III) People and Planet (2008) Meeting Facilitation. Available at: https://peopleandplanet.org/system/files/resources/Meeting_Facilitation_%28Groups_Guide_2008%29.pdf

26th February / Workshop : Storytelling

Required Reading

(I) Wood, J (2009), How Fiction Works . Jonathan Cape, London.

4th March / Lecture : Visual Communication

5th March / Lecture : Football Gives Strength

Required Reading

(I) Kabeer (2000). Resources, Agency, Achievements: Reflections on the Measurement of Women’s Empowerment

(II) Thornton (2017) Reclaiming Social Entrepreneurship, TEDxBend