Environment and Global Governance
The course highlights the relationships between global environmental problems, such as climate change, biological diversity, deforestation, and marine pollution, transnationalization and global governance.
The aim is to provide a deepened insight into the scales, processes, actors, institutions and mechanisms of governance that make up global environmental governance, focusing on the terminology and basic approaches to the main problems of the field. The course sheds light on the historic emergence of inter-state cooperation, international environmental agreements, and regimes, as well as transnational collaborations and private governance and institutions. It also deals with the role of states and non-state actors (civil society, companies,the environmental movement, the scientific community) and new forms of governance and policy instruments (certification, private-public partnerships, international goal setting).
The efficiency and legitimacy of global environmental governance is juxtaposed to the aims of various stakeholders and drivers of global environmental change, interlinkages between issues, and the global goals development and environment.
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Course structure
Teaching format
The teaching is conducted in the form of lectures and seminars.
Assessment
Seminars are compulsory. The course requires active participation in seminar discussions and completion ofseminar assignments and take-home exam.
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Schedule
The schedule will be available no later than one month before the start of the course. We do not recommend print-outs as changes can occur. At the start of the course, your department will advise where you can find your schedule during the course. -
Course literature
Note that the course literature can be changed up to two months before the start of the course. -
Course reports
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Contact
Course responsible teacher
Aysem MertStudent counsellor
studievagledare@statsvet.su.seStudent office
studentexpedition@statsvet.su.se
