Sustainability in the Mediterranean (in English) - Summer

GENERAL DESCRIPTION
This survey course is designed to provide students with a comprehensive 
approach to local self-sustainable practices, models and cultures in the 
Mediterranean region. Through revising bibliographic references and local case 
studies, students will understand the basics of traditional and innovative local 
self-sustainable projects in the Mediterranean context. Students will also 
identify and compare the community practices and local governance in the 
Mediterranean region, contrasting the city and rural landscape configurations in 
the Mediterranean region, especially those related to the local self-sustainable 
development. They also will identify and explain in situ the processes and 
resistances that are influencing the local sustainability of Granada and its 
surroundings.

CONTENTS. 
Unit 1. Concept of environment
Unit 2. The ecological crisis
Unit 3. The Mediterranean region: environmental features and boundaries
Unit 4. Introduction to Mediterranean environmental conflicts
Unit 5. Sustainability approaches
Unit 6. Energy transition 
Unit 7. Water & waste management 
Unit 8. Food and farming
Unit 9. Natural protected areas
Unit 10. Urban sustainability
Unit 11. Sustainable experiences in the Mediterranean Spain: La Vega de 
Granada

METHODOLOGY
• Theoretical classes
• Practical classes, seminars and fieldwork
• Commitment and involvement for the individual tutorial plan
• Self-learning activities
• Activities of individual practical works
• Practical teamwork activities

EVALUATION
1. Midterm exam (30%) about the contents of first ½ of the course 
(multiple choice, with 25 questions) 
2. Final paper and class presentation (40%): 
3. Participative attendance in the fieldwork (20%).
4. Activities and participation (10%). This assignment includes readings 
and short essays about papers, texts and presentations given in the 
course