Advanced Sustainability Quiz - study material and references

Advanced Sustainability Quiz - study material and references

Mark L. Miller

Need some revision before starting the quiz? We got you backed up. Here you have a list of articles to tackle all the 30 questions like a pro. If you need to dig in a little further, check out the references at the bottom.

Study material

Section 1: The History of International Sustainability

[1] Must-read: The history of international sustainability policy

Section 2: Sustainable Business

[2] Must-read: Are you paying the real price?

[3] Nice-to-read: The "Four Spheres" framework for sustainability (Fig.1)

[4] Nice-to-read: Assessing sustainability at farm-level: Lessons learned from a comparison of tools in practice (part 1.1, 1.2, 2.1)

Section 3: Sustainable Farms

[5] Better-to-read: What is RISE

Section 4: The Environmental Impact of Farming

[6] Must-read: “Eat locally” now also available for livestock

[7] Better-to-read: Cowspiracy - Facts

Section 5: Sustainable Tourism

[8] Better-to-read: Making tourism more sustainable - A guide for policy makers (part 1.4 - box 1.1)

Section 6: Sustainable Innovation

[9] Must-read: The dynamics of the sustainable transition and why sustainable innovation is lacking

[10] Nice-to-read: Sustainable Development: Definitions, Principles, Policies


References:

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Andersen, K. & Kuhn, K. (2014). Cowspiracy - Facts. Retrieved on 12 May 2020, from https://www.cowspiracy.com/facts

Arrow, K., Bolin, B. [...] Perrings, C. & Pimentelet, D. (1995, 28 April). Economic growth, carrying capacity, and the environment. Science 268 (5210), pp. 520

Bregman, R. (2017, 16 February). Hierdoor werd ik in een klap vegetarier. Retrieved on 12 May 2020, from http://decorrespondent.nl/6200/hierdoor-werd-ik-in-een-klap-vegetarier-en-jij-misschien-ook/238359000-cf5e1ea5

Butler, C.D. (2017, April). Limits to growth, planetary boundaries, and planetary health. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 25, pp. 59-65 Retrieved on 12 May 2020, from https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2017.08.002

Cambridge University (2017). Corporate Social Responsibility. Retrieved on 18 March 2017, from http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/corporate-social-responsibility

Cambridge University (2017). Greenwash. Retrieved on 12 May 2020, from http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/greenwash/

Club of Rome (2019). Home. Retrieved on 7 December 2019, from https://www.clubofrome.org/

Crane, A. & Matten, D. (2010). Business ethics: Managing corporate citizenship and sustainability in the age of globalization. Oxford University Press pp. 31-37

Daly, H. E. (2006). Sustainable Development—Definitions, Principles, Policies. In M. Keiner (Ed.), The Future of Sustainability. Springer

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F1-4020-4908-0_2

de Olde, E. M., Oudshoorn, F. W., Sørensen, C. A. G., Bokkers, E. A. M., & de Boer, I. J. M. (2016). Assessing sustainability at farm-level: Lessons learned from a comparison of tools in practice. Ecological Indicators, 66, 391–404. https://doi.org/10.101/j.ecolind.2016.01.047

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Gómez-Baggethun, E. & Naredo, J.M. (2015, 22 May). In search of lost time: the rise and fall of limits to growth in international sustainability policy. Sustainability Science 10 (3), pp. 385–395. Retrieved on 24 December 2019, from https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-015-0308-6

Grenz, J. (2015). RISE user manual. RISE 3.0 (p. 29). Bern University of Applied Sciences. https://www.bfh.ch/hafl/en/research/reference-projects/rise/

Hoekstra, E. (2020, 10 January). The history of international sustainable policy? Retrieved on 12 May 2020, from https://greenmarked.it/the-history-of-international-sustainability-policy/

Hoekstra, E. (2019, 14 June). “Eat locally” now also available for livestock. Retrieved on 12 May 2020, from https://greenmarked.it/eat-locally-now-also-available-for-livestock/

Hoekstra, E. (2019, 8 January). Are you paying the real price? Retrieved on 12 May 2020, from https://greenmarked.it/the-real-price

Hoekstra, E. (2017, 26 May). The dynamics of the sustainable transition and why sustainable innovation is lacking. Retrieved on 12 May 2020, from https://greenmarked.it/dynamics-of-sustainable-transition/

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O’Connor, M. (2006). The “Four Spheres” framework for sustainability. Complexity and Ecological Economics, 3(4), 285–292. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecocom.2007.02.002

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