| CODE | PPG2003 | |||||||||
| TITLE | Global Environmental Governance | |||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 02 - Years 2, 3 in Modular Undergraduate Course | |||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | |||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 4 | |||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Policy, Politics and Governance | |||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | During the past four decades environmental issues have become a key international concern and a growing focus for multi-level governance. Stakeholders such as the states themselves, international institutions, non-governmental organizations, transnational networks and civil society have been involved in raising awareness and in participating in on-going talks and negotiations on regional and global levels. Providing a review of the emergence of global environmental governance, a theoretical framework, and practical case studies, this study-unit sets out to examine the issues involved, the contribution made by critical players and assesses the implications for international governance and the world. The study-unit will enable students to understand the broad sweep of international policy and legislation related to environmental and climate issues and how this interacts, through multi-level governance, with EU and national policy. Study-Unit Aims: - Awareness of the key theories, issues, causes and risks of global environmental degradation; - Ability to explore relevant theory in view of empirical/scientific evidence. Ability to examine the historical and ideological context in which environmental regimes rose; - An appreciation of the crucial nature of environmental issues for foreign and national policy actors and the central role of environmental diplomacy in this regard. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Demonstrate broad knowledge of international environmental agreements and the outcome of the world conferences on the environment; - Examine and 鈥榗lose read鈥� the texts of key environmental agreements and critique them; - Describe the North-South divide in multilateral environmental processes; - Debate the importance of environmental issues in relations to global security threats (eg water conflicts and food security); - Explain how international policy and legislation related to environmental issues interacts, through multi-level governance, with EU and national policy. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Identify, compare and appraise the main relevant international institutions and agreements; - Critically analyze the role of non-state actors and the role played by multi-stakeholder discussions; - Apply an understanding of the difficulties to coordinate efforts and agree on common actions to address global environmental concerns to real-world scenarios; - Carry out research on the effectiveness of the UN environmental machinery. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: Main Texts: - Evans J.P. (2024) Environmental Governance, 2nd edition, Routledge: UK. - Hulme M. (2020) Contemporary Climate Change Debates, A student primer, Routledge: UK. - O鈥橬eill, Kate (2017) The Environment and International Relations, 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press: UK. Supplementary Readings: - Brown, O. Hammill, A. & McLeman, R. (2007) 鈥淐limate change as the 鈥榥ew鈥� security threat: implications for Africa鈥�. International Affairs 8: 6, pp 1141鈥�1154. - Bulkeley H., Andonova L., Betsill M., Compagnon D., Hale T. Hoffman M., Newell P., Paterson M., Roger C., and Vandeveer S. (2014) Transnational Climate Change Governance. Cambridge University Press. - DeSombre, E.R. (2017) Global Environmental Institutions, 2nd Edition Routledge: UK.. - Nicholson, S. and Wapner, P. (2015) Global Environmental Politics: From Person to Planet, Routledge: UK. - Zelli F. and van Asselt H. (2013) Introduction: The Institutional Fragmentation of Global Environmental Governance: Causes, Consequences, and Responses, Global Environmental Politics 13 (3) (p.1-13) available online: http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/GLEP_a_00180?class=ref+nowrap+pdf. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | |||||||||
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The availability of optional units may be subject to timetabling constraints. Units not attracting a sufficient number of registrations may be withdrawn without notice. It should be noted that all the information in the description above applies to study-units available during the academic year 2025/6. It may be subject to change in subsequent years. |
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