90-781 Environmental Policy and Governance
6 units, Carnegie Mellon University
The purpose of this course is to understand how environmental outcomes and policy are profoundly affected by politics and governance. Students develop these understandings by analysing the politics of several key international environmental issues Climate change and the Paris Accords Climate Change adaptation Energy policy Managing Ozone depletion and the Montreal Protocol The Mekong River Commission Water management Fisheries management Biodiversity conservation Ecologically sustainable development This analysis includes assessments of the application of various instruments of policy in the context of environmental politics and the institutional arrangements needed to support them. It leads on to a discussion of the capabilities that the modern state needs to have in place to manage the unique challenges of environmental policy and custodianship. This requires addressing the complexities of constraints on public sector resources, skills shortages and competing political agendas. Perhaps the most important complexity is the growing demand from citizens to participate in the government decisions that affect them, both as individuals and as members of communities.
Prerequisites: 80-310 (min C)
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