Il corso ha lo scopo di insegnare a riconoscere i minerali principali che costituiscono le rocce attraverso l'identificazione delle loro principali caratteristiche morfologiche e fisiche. Questo consente non solo di riconoscere i minerali, ma mediante la quantificazione degli stessi si arriva anche a riconoscere la roccia che li contiene.
The course offers an inter-disciplinary perspective on important social, economic and environmental problems that are expressed through the Sustainable Development Agenda (SDGs). The core argument of the course is whether economic development can be achieved while protecting environment and achieving social equality, and if so, how. More specifically, the course explains why sustainability is a societal priority, and it reviews 17 Sustainable Development Goals by providing a portrait of their meaning, theoretical underpinning, implementation and future agenda. The course also offers an overview of the most used statistical indicators that can be used to track societal progress and development. Topics covered include but do not limit to poverty and inequality, health and wellbeing of nations, education policies, gender, bio-diversity, climate change and economic growth. The course material includes the textbook ‘The age of sustainable development’ (Sachs, 2015) and (review) articles from the Annual review of Sociology, Nature and the UNDP development reports on the topics surrounding sustainable development goals. Occasionally, SDG Progress Reports, Global sustainable development reports and the global SDG database will be consulted.
The course introduces students to fundamental debates in contemporary political philosophy surrounding the pressing matter of climate change and the related topic of justice among generations. The course is taught exclusively in English, and is open both to Pavia-based students and to international exchange students.
Increasingly, communities, cities and economies face the need to not only mitigate, but also adapt to climate change. Mitigation and adaptation to climate change are complex and multifarious efforts, involving profound transformations in critical infrastructure systems, social behaviors and values and governance systems, constituting one of the most pressing global challenges to humankind. The goal of this course is to analyse these challenges with the tools of normative political theory, that is, investigating how to understand and include social values and justice concerns in these transformative processes.
The first part of the course will focus on theories of environment ethics discussing which theories of justice are more suitable for guiding modelling, plans and policy-making in climate adaptation processes. The second part of the course will debate matters of fairness between different generations. Solving the challenges raised by aging, stable pension funding programs, and increasing healthcare costs, for example, requires a view on what justice between age groups demands. Also, climate change, resource depletion, environmental degradation, population growth, and the like, raise serious concerns about the conditions under which future people will have to live.
The second part of the course will be more applied, and will discuss some of the specific challenges faced by environmental ethics. It is likely to cover at least the following issues: How much CO2 may we emit – and who is allowed to emit what?; What – if anything – do we owe to future generations? How should we divide resources between the old and the young?; Do we have a right to create future generations, or even an obligation? Can there be ‘too many’ people? These are hard questions on the intersection of political philosophy and ethics. They are not questions that can be answered by merely applying our existing theories: thinking about how to react to the environmental crisis and about what we owe to future generations puts pressure on existing normative theories and the course intends to shed lights on these pressing dilemmas.
The course focuses on varieties of economic inequality within and among countries such as uneven distribution of income and wealth. It aims to 1. introduce the concept of inequality and its measurement 2. Review worldwide inequality in a historical perspective 3. discuss its underlying forces. The course will tackle major debates on the topic of global inequality and engage with most recent literature including the recent work of Branko Milanovic, Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez and Florencia Torche. Both experiences of developed and developing countries will be highlighted. The topics include, but are not limited to, the elephant curve of global inequality, causes of global inequality, forecasts of global inequality and income convergence, income and wealth inequality in Africa and Asia, inequality in Bric countries, income Inequality in developed countries and inter-generational mobility around the world. Students will also have access to the World inequality reports and inequality blogs. Each session will combine frontal teaching with interactive group work.
The sessions of prof. Aris Trantidis (guest lecturer) will integrate the sociological part of the course and will cover political inequalities, global political asymmetries and country development gap.
L’insegnamento ha come obiettivo principale quello di guidare gli studenti nella redazione di un progetto di gestione e ripristino di un’area naturale o seminaturale che necessita di un intervento di recupero o di indicazioni di tipo gestionale.
L'insegnamento è articolato in 3 CFU di esercitazione. Le esercitazioni prevedono attività in campo finalizzate all'acquisizione diretta da parte degli studenti di dati di biodiversità e attività di laboratorio informatico, finalizzate all’analisi dei dati raccolti e preesistenti e all’elaborazione di un piano di ripristino e/o gestionale dell’area di studio