New Course: SPS 384 - Global Climate Change and Environment Politics

GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE AND ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS

This course introduces the essence of ecological crisis and environmental problems, and science and policy aspects of the environmental issues, exclusively of the global climate change. Climate change is not only the most alarming planetary challenge, but also is at the nexus of debate around international politics, environmental law, social movements and sustainable economic alternatives. This course equips students with skills and methodologies to use the basic notions of environmental politics which are among the novel concepts of political theory, such as ecological citizenship and environmental justice. International environmental politics, green and environmental movements, climate governance and food politics are among the topics to be discussed.