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This course is intended to cover major issues related to the theme of environment and development. The lecture will be organized in a manner that helps the students deepen their understanding of basic models, concepts and key ideas concerning environmental policy, sustainable development, economic growth and urbanization. The challenges of international cooperation in the field of environmental protection will also be discussed. Emphasis will be placed upon the study of the philosophy of 'sustainability' (i.e., economic development within environmental constraints). Not only a narrow issue of environmental policy (such as emission control and recycling) but a much broader concept of 'greening' of economic policy (or 'greening' of our national and global economic systems) will be examined. We will also study the issue of good governance, a key element in efficient implementation of conservation policy. Good governments can be considered a crucial factor in making a 'sustainable society' come true.
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[A Theories ]
1) Outline of the history of development strategies in the 20th century: models developed in the 1950s, ISI strategy, IMF/World Bank initiatives, Washington Consensus (WC) and post-WC, EOI (export oriented industrialization), ‘beyond EOI', collapsed/ fragile/ failed state, war and peace-keeping, democracy and ethnic diversity, coups and counter-coups, etc...
2) Theorizing on urbanization: Lewis model, Harris-Todaro model, etc...
3) Theories on 'state and society' of developing countries
4) Key topics of environmental economics: external diseconomy, social marginal cost (or social cost), polluter pays principle, Pigou tax, Baumol-Oates tax, environmental tax, carbon tax, tradable permits, calculating the value of the environment (WTP, travel cost approach, etc.), derivative transactions and ecology, etc...
[ B Fact analysis ]
5) Learning lessons from the realities: reflecting upon the Japanese experiences (various cases of industrial pollutions, public works and ecological damage, conservation of urban landscape and construction rush of high-rise condominiums, etc..)
6) Environmental problems in Asia, Africa, Latin America, Europe, and Middle East
[ C Policies and international cooperation ]
7) Globalization and environment: studying the developments related to Kyoto Mechanism (emission trade, clean development mechanism, etc..)
8) Environment and trade: 'greening' of GATT/WTO
9) Environment, automobiles, road construction and tax system
10) International cooperation and environmental consideration: Why has ODA been failing in some cases?
[ D Toward compact and sustainable cities]
11) Mega-cities versus sustainable cities
12) Environment and good government
13) Customization and standardization
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1. Students are expected to develop deep understanding of economic and social features of a developing economy that hamper development and transformation towards sustainable society. Especially, it is expected that the participants in this course will become able to explain relationship between ethnic diversity, natural resource dominated economy, corruption and bad governance, low level of GNI, insufficient supply of public goods, and poverty.
2. Students are expected to be able to speak about the basic idea and key questions about 'state-society' relationship in the developing world.
3. Students are expected to learn basic models of environmental economics.
4. Students are expected to be able to write a short essay on the theme of sustainable development.
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Students' performance will be evaluated on the basis of: (1) participation (weight: 15 percent); (2) report (weight: 25 percent); (3) final examination (weight: 60 percent).
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【成績評価の基準表】
| 秀(S) | 優(A) | 良(B) | 可(C) | 不可(F) |
| 履修目標を越えたレベルを達成している | 履修目標を達成している | 履修目標と到達目標の間にあるレベルを達成している | 到達目標を達成している | 到達目標を達成できていない |
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履修目標：授業で扱う内容（授業のねらい）を示す目標
到達目標：授業において最低限学生が身につける内容を示す目標
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Textbook(s) will be announced later (copies of some important academic papers from related fields will be distributed to the students a few weeks prior to each lecture session). The following book is recommended as a reference book: Japan Environmental Council (ed.) The State of the Environment in Asia, Tokyo: Springer-Verlag.
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The textbook will be chosen after consultation with the participating students.
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ethnic diversity, bad government, ODA, failed state, sustainable development
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