Topics: Global Environmental Policy and Governance

Catalog description

The course aims to provide a broad overview of the key concepts, actors, debates, and issues in global environmental politics. It demonstrates the complexities both of the nature of the problems as well as the solutions. The proliferation of global institutions and international actors and the absence of central enforcement mechanisms are hallmarks of addressing environmental problems. The seminar will involve extensive reading, class discussion, weekly synthesis writing assignments, and a collaborative group project on the subject of international environmental policy and governance. The course is designed for students with interests in areas such as environment and international relations, political ecology, development, and environmental policy and management.