Global Environmental Governance

The main objective of the course is to provide interdisciplinary knowledge, skills, and competences that can assist you in dealing with global environmental governance in an international and/or national work context.

Knowledge
At the end of the course, the students can retrieve, recognize, and recall knowledge aquired from the course (including lectures, readings, and assignments) on:
· Global environmental problems and issues,
· Concepts and theories,
· International organizations and regimes,
· Different types of actors and the roles they play in global environmental governance

Skills
The students can:
· Explain and compare theories and concepts from the course,
· Exemplify and compare environmental problems and the challenges they pose to global governance

Competences
Finally, the students can:
· Apply concepts and theories from the course in discussions and analyses of global environmental problems and solutions, institutions and regimes,
· Compare and critically reflect on the (relative) strengths and weaknesses of different concepts and theories in relation to carrying out such analyses.