Energy Ethics in A Curriculum on Sustainable Urban Infrastructure

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Energy Ethics in A Curriculum on Sustainable Urban Infrastructure Anu Ramaswami Professor and Director, IGERT: Sustainable Urban Infrastructure Center for Sustainable Infrastructure Systems University of Colorado Denver

Broadly Inter-Disciplinary Program: Sustainable Urban Infrastructure

Ethics Modules Integrated in Core Courses Introductory Course: Module 1 - What is Development? Discuss the goal of development before discussing sustainable development Amartya Sen – Human Capabilities Approach vs Peter Gleick (Basic Needs of 50 L water/pp/day) vs Utilitarian Approach (human labor as a means of development) Origins of Human Development Index (HDI) Fukuda-Parr, S; ‘The Human Development Paradigm: Operationalizing Sen’s Ideas on Capabilities’ Feminist Economics 9(2 – 3), 2003, 301 – 317, 2002.

Case Study: Is More Energy Use Per Capita a requirement for “development”? HDI vs Primary Energy Use/Capita From: Steinberger & Roberts 2009

Deliberations Explore trends in energy use (per capita) and the HDI in different nations. Can society articulate a minimum basic level of energy use for human survival as has been suggested for water? Should this basic energy use level be established as a universal human right? How much energy use is enough for an improved quality of life? This discussion introduces the notion of sufficiency that is important in discussions about sustainability. Follow up with a discussion that compares three different paradigms for human development (Basic needs, HDI, Utilitarian)

Is there an energy threshold? From: Steinberger & Roberts 2009

Module 2 - Energy & Climate Change Module 2 - In Defining and Measuring Sustainability Who’s responsible? Who pays? Who says? Reading from: Michael Grubb; Seeking Fair Weather: Ethics and the International Debate on Climate Change, International Affairs, Vol. 71, No. 3, Ethics, the Environment and the Changing International Order. (July1995), pp. 463-496 .

INTERNATIONAL CO2 per capita Emissions 25 mt CO2e per capita Target ~2 mt CO2e in a carbon equitable world INTERNATIONAL CO2 per capita Emissions

Some Climate Impacts

Who Should Pay for Carbon Mitigation? [Discussion in Grubb] Who Says Who Should Pay?

Rural Indian Family – All belongings Peter Menzel, Material World

A US Family with All Belongings Peter Menzel, Material World

Family in Japan – All Belongings

Family in Mali

Discussion