Global Environmental Politics

Description

The main objectives of the course are: Provide students with in-depth knowledge of global environmental, climate, and sustainability governance actors, processes, and structures; Enable students to analyse critically global environmental, climate, and sustainability governance arrangements. Upon completion of the course, successful students will be able to: Identify the main analytical and normative debates in the analysis of contemporary global environmental, climate, and sustainability governance; Explain the design, goals, actors, and challenges of the main global environmental, climate, and sustainability regimes; Explain the most important principles and concepts of contemporary international environmental, climate, and sustainability policymaking; Critically analyse individual global environmental, climate, and sustainability regimes and the broader architecture of global environmental, climate, and sustainability governance. The course objectives will be elucidated and discussed at the beginning of the course.