Measuring, Evaluating and Reporting Sustainable Development 4030-MERSD
1. Agenda 2030 SDGs (2h).
2. Overview databases of the GUS, OECD, Eurostat, MONET, WB (4h).
2. Systems of SD indicators: GUS, Eurostat, OECD, MONET (4h).
3. Mesuring progress, Exploring Data, Introduction to Forecasting (8h).
4. SD implementation, monitoring and control, good practices (2h).
5. Building value through sustainability reports (4h).
6. Methods of data presentation (2h).
7. Presentation of reports (4h).
Type of course
Mode
Requirements
Prerequisites (description)
Course coordinators
Learning outcomes
Upon completion of the course the student:
- analyses the challenges of sustainable development;
- recognizes trends in social, economic and environmental phenomena;
- interprets and explains the trends in time;
- creates and justifies the choice of a system of indicators SD;
- creates forecasts of social, economic and environmental phenomena;
- collects data and creates and presents a SD report;
- is able to critically assess the SD reports.
K_W03; K_W05; K_W07; K_W09; K_U02; K_U03; K_U04; K_U09; K_K01; K_K03; K_K05;K_K09
Assessment criteria
Class participation (20%). Project (80%).
Practical placement
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Bibliography
• Bell, S., Morse, S., 2010. Sustainability Indicators. Measuring theImmeasurable. Earthscan, London.
• Wskaźniki zrównoważonego rozwoju Polski 2015, GUS.
• Sustainable development in the European Union — Monitoring report on progress towards the SDGs in an EU contex, Eurostat, 2016, 2017.
• The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2017, ONU.
• Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development; https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/post2015/transformingourworld
• Advancing the Sustainable Development Goals: Business action and Millennials’ views. 2016. Corporate Citizenship.
• United Nations High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF).
Additional information
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