ASTK12271U CANCELED: Climate change, global governance, and international relations

Volume 2014/2015
Content
  • The material and ideational content of climate change and the Anthropocene: A social science perspective
  • Governance of climate change: UN Negotiations
  • Governance of climate change: Green growth networks
  • Governance of climate change: Involving citizens – citizens getting involved
  • Governance of climate change: Security, geopolitics or Gaiapolitics
  • Governance of climate change: Knowledge and power – Sociology of science and post-normal governance
Learning Outcome

The aim of the course is to give students a broad introduction to social science perspectives of antropogenic climate change and the Anthropocene, in particular to issues of governance of climate change. After completing the course, the students should be able to:

 

Knowledge:

  • Understand and describe “anthropogenic climate change” in its material and ideational forms from a social science perspective.
  • Understand and describe climate change in terms of different governance expressions and different political issues.

 

Skills:

  • Analyse different global expressions of climate change governance, especially “State”, “Market”, “Society”, and “Post-normal” approaches to governance.
  • Analyse different political approaches to climate change and their interdependencies, especially climate change as trade issue, security issue, economic and social development issue.
  • Present the results of an analysis in a well-structured, logical, coherent and scientifically correct form, written as well as orally.*

 

Competencies:

  • Understand and analyse the links between global climate governance in its different expressions and specific issues of climate politics.
  • Apply insights from governance theory, sociology of science, and natural science approaches to climate change and the interrelationships between science and policy.
  • Work efficiently in an international, interdisciplinary team to contribute with social science analyses of climate change governance and politics.

 

 

* Noting that there are different ways of doing a ”scientifically correct” form of analysis.

Will follow
  • Category
  • Hours
  • Class Instruction
  • 28
  • Exam
  • 79
  • Preparation
  • 168
  • Total
  • 275
Credit
10 ECTS
Type of assessment
Written assignment
Written exam
Marking scale
7-point grading scale
Censorship form
External censorship
Criteria for exam assesment

Criteria for achieving the goals:

  • Grade 12 is given for an outstanding performance: the student lives up to the course's goal description in an independent and convincing manner with no or few and minor shortcomings
  • Grade 7 is given for a good performance: the student is confidently able to live up to the goal description, albeit with several shortcomings
  • Grade 02 is given for an adequate performance: the minimum acceptable performance in which the student is only able to live up to the goal description in an insecure and incomplete manner