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International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education | 2011

The creation of an integrated sustainability curriculum and student praxis projects

Christopher M. Bacon; Dustin Mulvaney; Tamara Ball; E. Melanie DuPuis; Stephen R. Gliessman; Ronnie D. Lipschutz; Ali Shakouri

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to share the content and early results from an interdisciplinary sustainability curriculum that integrates theory and practice (praxis). The curriculum links new topical courses concerning renewable energy, food, water, engineering and social change with specialized labs that enhance technological and social‐institutional sustainability literacy and build team‐based project collaboration skills.Design/methodology/approach – In responses to dynamic interest emerging from university students and society, scholars from Environmental Studies, Engineering, Sociology, Education and Politics Departments united to create this curriculum. New courses and labs were designed and pre‐existing courses were “radically retrofitted” and more tightly integrated through co‐instruction and content. The co‐authors discuss the background and collaborative processes that led to the emergence of this curriculum and describe the pedagogy and results associated with the student projects.Find...


Environment and Planning A | 2009

From Public to Private Global Environmental Governance: Lessons from the Montreal Protocol's Stalled Methyl Bromide Phase-Out

Brian J. Gareau; E. Melanie DuPuis

The Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, a multilateral environmental agreement, has successfully eliminated the use of most ozone-depleting chlorofluoro-carbons. As a result, a number of observers have pointed to the possibility of transferring successes—and even linking regulations—between the Montreal Protocol and Kyoto Protocol, the international but stalled climate-change agreement. We argue that there is need for caution on this issue. The Montreal and Kyoto protocols are the outcomes of vastly different political contexts, from public civil society approaches to what we call ‘the private turn’: the current loss of faith in state sovereignty, the rejection of multilateralism, and an embrace of private knowledge about economic damage over public knowledge about the protection of citizens and natural resources. From this broader perspective we show that the differences between the Montreal and Kyoto protocols are therefore more than ‘command-and-control’ versus ‘market-based’ solutions. These differences also reflect an even deeper divide over what ‘counts’ as knowledge in political decision-making processes. We illustrate these points through a case study of the current knowledge controversies around the phase-out of methyl bromide under the Montreal Protocol. We explain how the methyl bromide phase-out has stalled because the phase-out approach is incompatible with the current political regime, thus supporting the argument that neoliberal forms of governance cannot solve global environmental problems. This case, therefore, shows us that the challenges we face are more than atmospheric: to save the Earth we must create new ways to govern ourselves.


Sustainability : Science, Practice and Policy | 2013

How Not What: Teaching Sustainability as Process

E. Melanie DuPuis; Tamara Ball

Abstract Ever since the word “sustainability” entered public discourse, the concept has escaped definition. The United Nations has christened the years 2005–2014 “The UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development” and has called upon universities “to make education for sustainability a central focus of higher education curricula, research, physical operations, student life, and outreach to local, regional, and global communities.” Nevertheless, the indeterminacy of sustainability as a concept has challenged those designing university sustainability efforts, in terms of both campus planning and curricula. Some instructors and campus sustainability planners have chosen to stabilize sustainability concepts into a technical and ethical “greenprint” based on some agreement concerning shared (or imposed) concepts and values. Yet others have realized that this is not a problem to be “solved” but instead presents an opportunity to advance and implement alternative approaches to teaching and learning “post-normal” or “Mode 2” science. This article describes a curricular design that attempts to maintain both canonical disciplinary learning about the techniques of sustainability and training in the reflexive skills necessary to explore sustainable change through post-normal learning processes, which we delineate as three “modes of knowing.” By training students to practice these ways of knowing sustainability, they come to understand the “how” of sustainable practice, process, and design, while allowing the “what” of sustainability to emerge from group interaction in a collaborative context.


Environment and Planning A | 2008

Sustainability and scale: US milk-market orders as relocalization policy

E. Melanie DuPuis; Daniel Block

There has been a recent wave of political and theoretical interest in localism and relocalization as a political strategy in resistance to the hegemonic power of globalization. Some geographers and other observers of spatial politics have been skeptical of these efforts, questioning the effectiveness and the effects of relocalization movements. In response, DuPuis and Goodman have argued for a ‘reflexive localism’ that takes a more pragmatic approach, understanding the ways in which this form of politics can or cannot provide a powerful alternative to globalization. Building on current realist studies, this analysis seeks to build a more reflexive framework with which to understand the politics of localism. To do this the study draws upon the perspectives of political ecology and the politics of scale and uses a comparative historical methodology to look at one of the most effective forms of localized governance in US agriculture: the milk-market-order system. The analysis shows that market orders created economic enclaves that enabled particular agroecological practices, or ‘farming styles’. Market orders functioned as mesolevel institutions that both territorially fixed local agroecologies and mediated with institutions at other spatial scales, a process in which ‘local’, ‘state’, and ‘national’ were coproduced.


Gastronomica | 2009

Milk: The Surprising Story of Milk Through the Ages, with 120 Recipes, Anne Mendelson . New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008. 335 pp. Illustrations.

E. Melanie DuPuis

Reading a book is also kind of better solution when you have no enough money or time to get your own adventure. This is one of the reasons we show the milk the surprising story of milk through the ages as your friend in spending the time. For more representative collections, this book not only offers its strategically book resource. It can be a good friend, really good friend with much knowledge.


Agriculture and Human Values | 2000

27.95 (cloth).

E. Melanie DuPuis


Social Science Quarterly | 2008

Not in my body: BGH and the rise of organic milk

E. Melanie DuPuis; Brian J. Gareau


The American Journal of Economics and Sociology | 2001

Neoliberal Knowledge: The Decline of Technocracy and the Weakening of the Montreal Protocol*

Daniel Block; E. Melanie DuPuis


Rural Sociology | 2009

Making the Country Work for the City: Von Thünen's Ideas in Geography, Agricultural Economics and the Sociology of Agriculture

E. Melanie DuPuis


Gastronomica | 2014

Pacification or Contestation? The Role of Discourse in Agricultural Policy1

E. Melanie DuPuis

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Daniel Block

Chicago State University

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Tamara Ball

University of California

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Dustin Mulvaney

San Jose State University

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