LNAK10072U Global Environmental Governance
MSc Programme in Forest Ecosystems, Nature and Society SUFONAMA
MSc Programme in Agriculture
MSc Programme in Climate Change
GEG is an interdisciplinary project oriented course
organised around environmental themes, which may change from year
to year. The course concludes with an oral examination.
The course consists of three main components: (1) An introduction
to the general field of “global environmental governance” (2)
Examination of a global environmental themes (3) A project
assignment.
Re 1. General introduction
The course will introduce key concepts and issues of relevance for
global environmental governance as seen from various professional
perspectives (political science, geography, law and life science).
Moreover, the course will introduce the most important of those
governmental and non-governmental international institutions that
regulate the interaction between society and environment. The
students will obtain a basic understanding of how these
international institutions interact with institutions at regional
and national levels. It is intended to provide insights in the
global and international character of environmental problems, and
in those mechanisms of governance and regulation that have special
significance for the solution of environmental problems.
The aim of the introduction is to create a common conceptual
framework for the subsequent work.
Re. 2. Examination of global environmental themes
The second component is an examination of global environmental
themes in the light of global environmental governance, again
drawing on the various professional approaches, research
traditions, analytical frameworks, etc.
Examples of possible environmental themes are: biodiversity, water,
forest, climate change.
Focus is on the global and international levels of governance, but
also with a view to how these levels interact with the regional and
local levels.
Re 3. Project reports
The students will work in teams in preparing a written
assignment.
Background:
The course is part of the cross-faculty Global Environmental
Governance education programme, described at
www.geg.ku.dk. Three
departments are involved in the course and programme including
Faculty of Science (IFRO and IGN); Faculty of Law, and Faculty of
Social Science (Department of Political Science).
Objective:
The objective of the course is to equip the students with
interdisciplinary skills, which will assist them in dealing with
global environmental governance in an international and/or national
context. They will be enabled, moreover, to obtain knowledge about
scientific issues of relevance to global environmental problems,
and gain understanding of some of the international processes,
which bring this knowledge into play
Knowledge
-Has knowledge about relevant international organisations, how they
work, and how they interact in relation to the task of governing
the society-nature relationship.
-Has understanding of political and institutional issues in the
relationship between global, national and local levels of
environmental governance
-Has understanding of natural science aspects of the global
environmental problems and their eventual solutions, main focus is
on the green environment.
Skills
-Understand and link knowledge and insights from own professional
background with corresponding knowledge and insights from other
professions including political science, law, life science, and
natural sciences
-Is able to critically evaluate information related to social and
physical aspects of global environmental problems and their
eventual solutions.
-Is able to work in multidisciplinary manner teams when addressing
global environmental problems
Competences
-Can take technical, natural science and social science aspects
into consideration when working with global environmental issues
and problems, consequences and solutions.
-Can bring natural science based knowledge about environmental
problems into play in an international political, legal and
administrative context.
The course book is: O’Neil, Kate (2009): The Environment and
International Relations, Cambridge University Press.
Another good introduction, also part of the course
reading, is provided by: Najam, Adil; M. Papa, N. Taiyab (2006):
Global Environmental governance, a reform agenda. IISD. Chapter 1.
A primer on the GEG Reform Debate.
http://www.iisd.org/pdf/2006/geg.pdf
- Category
- Hours
- Exam
- 2
- Guidance
- 2
- Lectures
- 48
- Preparation
- 55
- Project work
- 87
- Theory exercises
- 12
- Total
- 206
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- Credit
- 7,5 ECTS
- Type of assessment
- Oral examination, 30 minutes under invigilation30 minutes oral examination including assessment. The exams take out in a brief presentation by the individual student of the obligatory written assignment, and relate to the curriculum.
- Aid
- All aids allowed
- Marking scale
- 7-point grading scale
- Censorship form
- No external censorship
Several internal examiners
Criteria for exam assesment
See Learning Outcomes
Course information
- Language
- English
- Course code
- LNAK10072U
- Credit
- 7,5 ECTS
- Level
- Full Degree Master
- Duration
- 1 block
- Placement
- Block 3
- Schedule
- A (Tues 8-12 + Thurs 8-17)
- Course capacity
- No limitations
- Continuing and further education
- Study board
- Study Board of Natural Resources and Environment
Contracting departments
- Department of Food and Resource Economics
- Law
- Department of Geoscience and Natural Resource Management
Course responsibles
- Iben Nathan (2-6c71436c697572316e7831676e)
Lecturers
Different teachers