(Subject to change)

1. The Circular Economy

2. Sustainable Development

3. Corporate Sustainability

4. Business Models

5. Circular Business Models 

6. Natural Resource Management

7. Waste Management

8. Industrial Ecology

9. Corporate Social Responsibility

10. Green Taxation

11. Global Sustainability Standards

12. Circular Economy Accounting

13. Group Presentation A&B 

14. Group Presentation C&D 

15. Group Discussions

16. Final In-Class Meeting

TBA

Grades will be determined on the basis of the student's performance in relation to a) class attendance and participation, b) two individual assignments, c) one group presentation on reviewing a Circular Business Model (CBM), and d) one research report.

Class attendance and participation (10%)

Individual assignment (20%)

Group presentation (30%)

Final research report (40%)

(Required)  Lin, Brian Chi-ang. Circular Economy and Sustainable Endogenous Growth. Budapest, Hungary: BC4LS, 2023.  

1. Boulding Kenneth E. Towards a New Economics: Critical Essays on Ecology Distribution and Other Themes. Aldershot Hants. England: Edward Elgar, 1992.

2. Brears. Robert C. Natural Resource Management and the Circular Economy. Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

3. Burger, Philippe. Sustainable Fiscal Policy and Economic Stability: Theory and Practice. Northampton, Mass.: Edward Elgar, 2003.

4. Clinch, J. Peter; Schlegelmilch, Kai; Sprenger, Rolf-Ulrich and Triebswetter, Ursula. (eds.) Greening the Budget: Budgetary Policies for Environmental Improvement. Northampton, Mass.: Edward Elgar, 2002.

5. De Angelis, Roberta.  Business Models in the Circular Economy: Concepts, Examples and Theory. Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

6. Ferroni, Marco and Mody, Ashoka. (eds.) International Public Goods: Incentives, Measurement, and Financing. Norwell, Mass.: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002.

7. Johnson, Mark W. Reinvent Your Business Model: How to Seize the Whit Space for Transformative Growth. Harvard Businees Review Press, 2018.

8. Lin, Brian Chi-ang and Zheng, Siqi. (eds.) Environmental Economics and Sustainability. Oxford, UK: Wiley Blackwell, 2017.

9. Osterwalder, Alexander and Pigneur, Yves. Business Model Generation : A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers. Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley, 2010.

10. Wissenburg, Marcel. Green Liberalism: The Free and the Green Society. London: UCL Press, 1998.