ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY: ANALYSIS AND PRACTICE

概要

Mainstreaming environmental policies is a universal challenge of policy makers at all levels of government, be it local, national or international. This course will explore the relationship between local-national-and global environmental policy initiatives and environmental change. How do global initiatives such as the Kyoto Protocol and the UN Convention on Biological Diversity influence national and local environmental policy dialogue, design and implementation? Conversely, what local initiatives influence national and global policy? Further, what are the implications of environmental change for local-national-global policy interactions? Looking at specific environmental issues and themes from around the world, this course aims to explore the relationship between local, national and global interactions with a specific look at the barriers to integrative environmental policy development, but also explore the potentials of integrative policy formulation and implementation needed to mainstream environmental policies from local to global levels.

目標

1) develop in-depth understanding of how environmental policy is formulated 2) develop skills for analyzing environmental issues based on environmental policy criteria 3) develop knowledge sets about environmental issues

授業外の学習

Each week students will be required to read one chapter and/or peer reviewed journal articles for lecture. The lecture will be based on the readings, so advanced preparation is important to ensure understanding of the lecture. Extra course reading and written analysis of reading material for PhD candidate students will be expected to ensure in-depth reading to develop knowledge sets and critical reading capacities on this subject.

所要時間: 190 minutes of outside classwork