701-1651-00L  Environmental Governance

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Kurzbeschreibung	The course addresses environmental policies, focusing on new steering approaches, which are generally summarized as environmental governance. The course also provides students with tools to analyze environmental policy processes and assesses the key features of environmental governance by examining various practical environmental policy examples.
Lernziel	To understand how an environmental problem may (not) become a policy and explain political processes, using basic concepts and techniques from political science. To analyze the evolution as well as the key elements of environmental governance. To be able to identify the main challenges and opportunities for environmental governance and to critically discuss them with reference to various practical policy examples.
Inhalt	Improvements in environmental quality and sustainable management of natural resources cannot be achieved through technical solutions alone. The quality of the environment and the achievement of sustainable development strongly depend on human behavior and specifically the human uses of nature. To influence human behavior, we rely on public policies and other societal rules, which aim to steer the way humans use natural resources and their effects on the environment. Such steering can take place through government intervention alone. However, this often also involves governance, which includes the interplay between governmental and non-governmental actors, the use of diverse tools such as emission standards or financial incentives to steer actors' behavior and can occur at the local, regional, national or international level. In this course, we will address both the practical aspects of as well as the scientific debate on environmental governance. The course gives future environmental experts a strong basis to position themselves in the governance debate, which does not preclude government but rather involves a spectrum from government to governance. Key questions that this course seeks to answer: What are the core characteristics of environmental challenges from a policy perspective? What are key elements of 'environmental governance' and how legitimate and effective are these approaches in addressing persistent environmental challenges?
Skript	Lecture slides, a script and additional course material will be provided on Moodle.
Voraussetzungen / Besonderes	A detailed course schedule will be made available at the beginning of the semester. During the lecture we will work with Moodle. We ask that all students register themselves on this platform before the lecture. We recommend that students have (a) three-years BSc education of a (technical) university; (b) successfully completed Bachelor introductory course to environmental policy (Entwicklungen nationaler Umweltpolitik (or equivalent)) and (c) familiarity with key issues in environmental policy and some fundamental knowledge of one social science or humanities discipline (political science, economics, sociology, history, psychology, philosophy)
Kompetenzen	Fachspezifische Kompetenzen Konzepte und Theorien geprüft Methodenspezifische Kompetenzen Analytische Kompetenzen geprüft Entscheidungsfindung geprüft Problemlösung geprüft Projektmanagement geprüft Soziale Kompetenzen Kommunikation geprüft Kooperation und Teamarbeit geprüft Selbstdarstellung und soziale Einflussnahme geprüft Sensibilität für Vielfalt geprüft Verhandlung geprüft Persönliche Kompetenzen Anpassung und Flexibilität geprüft Kritisches Denken geprüft Integrität und Arbeitsethik geprüft Selbstbewusstsein und Selbstreflexion geprüft Selbststeuerung und Selbstmanagement geprüft

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Leistungskontrolle als Semesterkurs
ECTS Kreditpunkte	6 KP
Prüfende	E. Lieberherr
Form	unbenotete Semesterleistung
Prüfungssprache	Englisch
Repetition	Repetition ohne erneute Belegung der Lerneinheit möglich.

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