Lehrende/r: Selina Alexandra Beckmann; Barbara Müller
Veranstaltungsart: Seminar
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Semesterwochenstunden: 2
Credits: 5,0
Unterrichtssprache: Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl: - | 20
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches: The course is designed for regular students and international exchange students from the social sciences and neighboring disciplines. It begins with an overview of global population trends and patterns, and their causes and consequences of demographic change across the world. Next, it elaborates on the interdependencies of population and sustainable development. In a small conference at the end of the course, all participants are given the opportunity to present and discuss a sub-topic they have chosen themselves and prepared with the help of the lecturer.
Inhalt: At 8 billion, world population is still growing, albeit at a diminishing pace. Global population growth is projected to peak at 10.4 billion during the 2080s. In the meantime, most growth is expected to take place in the poorest countries, most of them in Sub-Sahara Africa. Is there a sustainable future for a growing global population? Fighting poverty and hunger, investing in quality of life for those most in need and reducing inequalities are key pillars of sustainable development. Achieving these goals without further increasing the ecological footprint beyond the earth’s carrying capacity is a joint global responsibility. “Overconsumption” of the rich is a major concern for reaching the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The richest ten percent of world’s population is responsible for almost half of all CO2 emissions, while the contribution of the poorest half, which is still growing, is negligible at less than ten percent.
Empfohlene Literatur: Bundesinstitut für Bevölkerungsforschung (Hrsg.) (2018): Atlas zur Weltbevölkerung. Karten – Daten – Fakten. Wiesbaden. https://www.bib.bund.de/Publikation/2018/pdf/Atlas-zur-Weltbevoelkerung.pdf Swiaczny, F. et al. (2021): Globale Bevölkerungsentwicklung. BiB.Bevölkerungs.Studien 1.2021. Wiesbaden. https://www.bib.bund.de/Publikation/2021/pdf/Globale-Bevoelkerungsentwicklung.pdf Swiaczny. F. (2022): Bevölkerung und nachhaltige Entwicklung. In: Vereinte Nationen 3/2022: 99-104. https://zeitschrift-vereinte-nationen.de/suche/zvn/artikel/bevoelkerung-und-nachhaltige-entwicklung UN DESA (2021): Global Population Growth and Sustainable Development. New York. Edited by L. Basarsky, C. Menotti, J. Wilmoth and F. Swiaczny. https: www.un.org.development.desa.pd/files/undesa_pd_2022_global_population_growth.pdf
Zusätzliche Informationen: This course is held by Dr. Frank Swiaczny. He is Senior Researcher at the Federal Institute for Population Research in Germany and Executive Director of the German Society for Demography. From 2017-2020 he was Assistant Director (Chief Population Trends and Analysis Branch) at UN DESA Population Division in New York. Requirements: Students obtain 5 ECTS credits for active participation and an oral presentation (conference talk). Hinweis für Studierende im BA Politikwissenschaft und MEd Sozialkunde: Das Seminar gilt in den BA Aufbaumodulen 2 und 3 und im MEd Modul Querschnitt für die Bereiche AVPS und W+G. Eine Modulprüfung kann im Rahmen dieses Seminars jedoch NICHT gemacht werden!
