LNAK10072U Global Environmental Governance
MSc Programme in Nature Management (Landscape, Biodiversity and
Planning)
MSc Programme in Forest Ecosystems, Nature and Society SUFONAMA
MSc Programme in Agriculture
MSc Programme in Climate Change
MSc Programme in Forest and Nature Management
GEG is an interdisciplinary project oriented course
organised around different 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 different 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 and
regimes that regulate the interaction between society and
environment. The students will obtain a basic understanding of how
these institutions and regimes 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
http://geg.ku.dk/. Two faculties
have shares in the course and programme including Faculty of
Science (IFRO and IGN) and Faculty of Law. The course also has
collaboration with the Department of Political Science (Faculty of
Social Sciences).
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
different 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 and
regimes, how they work, and what are some of their limitations 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 insights in some of the different debates on of 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 sciences, and
geography
-Can open up to different views on social and physical aspects of
global environmental problems and their eventual solutions.
-Is able to work in teams when addressing global environmental
problems
Competences
-Can link the theories introduced at the course with global
environmental issues and problems, consequences and solutions.
-Can bring knowledge about environmental problems into play in an
international political, legal and administrative
context.
You can find a good introduction to the topic in: 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.
- Exam registration requirements
Submitted project report
- Aid
- All aids allowed
- Marking scale
- 7-point grading scale
- Censorship form
- No external censorship
Several internal examiners
- Re-exam
If the student has not handed in the project report, then it must be handed in two weeks prior to the deadline of registration for the re-exam. It must be approved before the exam.
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
- Course capacity
- No limit
- 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