Geographies of Environmental Governance (University of Zurich)
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2 hrs
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Abstract
The course provides an overview of dominant and emerging trends in the theory and practice of environmental governance. The course addresses environmental issues as policy problems and explores how the environment is regulated, controlled, and contested by a range of actors and institutions. The course focuses on the spatial dimension of environmental change and uses key concepts from geography.
Learning objective
Course participants will develop a theoretically as well as practically informed understanding of recent issues and debates in contemporary geographies of environmental governance.
Content
The course provides an overview of dominant and emerging trends in the theory and practice of environmental governance. The course addresses environmental issues as policy problems and explores how the environment is regulated, controlled, and contested by a range of actors and institutions. The course focuses on the spatial dimension of environmental change and uses key concepts from geography (scale, region, network) to advance regional environmental governance thinking. The lectures are complemented by seminar classes to work on case studies in smaller groups of students.
Performance assessment
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Performance assessment as a semester course
ECTS credits
3 credits
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Type
graded semester performance
Language of examination
English
Repetition
Repetition only possible after re-enrolling for the course unit.
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Registration modalities, date and venue of this performance assessment are specified solely by UZH.
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