Environmental Governance
STVC55 – Environmental Governance (7.5 credits). Bachelor course in Political Science. Spring term.
The course aims to examine environmental change as a problem of governance. We scrutinize major governance dimensions - such as actors, institutions, and problem structures - at multiple levels and across domains. This includes the interplay of government, market, and civil society in efforts to mitigate and adapt to environmental change.
The course critically approaches the changing institutional architecture of environmental governance, including the rise of alternative forms of governance beyond the state. Actors like regions, cities, international organisations, businesses, non-governmental organisations, and social movements will be studied. Cases of environmental governance on various levels will be contrasted and compared, together with overlaps between environmental issues and other domains like trade and security.
The course gives an opportunity to reflect on these cases in relation to central political science concepts like democracy, justice, legitimacy, and effectiveness.
Syllabus STVC55 Political Science: Environmental Governance (pdf, new window)
Literature STVC55 Political Science: Environmental Governance (pdf, new window)
Contact
Helen Fogelin
International coordinator – incoming students
Room: 234
Telephone: +46 (0)46-2228951
E-mail: helen [dot] fogelin [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se