The questions that will guide our work throughout the semester include: What is environmental governance? What are the principles of good environmental governance? How are the stakeholders involved in governance? What are the instruments available? How can good environmental governance be designed and implemented? To address these questions, the course will examine processes and instruments of environmental governance by considering theories and empirical studies. We focus on theories and issues relating to national and international governance, public policy formation, common property management, market and non-market incentives for resource management, decentralization, civil society organizations and corporate environmental behaviour.

Students attending this course will learn:

• theories underpinning environmental governance;
• to think and write critically about environmental governance issues; and
• to devise solutions for environmental governance problems at the local, national and global levels.

Ministerial brief (20%); on-line discussions (25%); essay (30); exam (25%).

4 contact hours and about 6 hours reading and writing per week.

Delivery Mode:

Semester 1; on campus and distance education.