Swedish name: Environmental Governance
This syllabus is valid: 2025-01-20 and until further notice
Course code: 2SV037
Credit points: 7.5
Education level: First cycle
Main Field of Study and progress level:
Political Science: First cycle, has less than 60 credits in first-cycle course/s as entry requirements
Grading scale: Pass with distinction, Pass, Fail
Responsible department: Department of Political Science
Revised by: Head of Department of Political Science, 2024-09-10
Environmental problems and global environmental change are complex, transboundary, multi-level and multi-sector issues, that need to be dealt with at all administrative levels and with an integrated approach across policy areas. By applying theories of governance, we will discuss what this may imply in practice for the policy-making and implementation of environmental politics at different levels. The course introduces key theoretical concepts useful for the understanding of global environmental change as a policy problem, and employs different ideological perspectives for further understanding and analysise of the mechanisms that drives global environmental change and environmental politics. Cases of environmental governance on various levels will be contrasted and compared, together with overlaps between environmental issues and other domains like trade and security. The course will give opportunity to reflect on these cases in relation to central political scientific concepts like democracy, justice, legitimacy and effectiveness.
Students who successfully complete the course are expected to be able to:
Univ: 30 ECTS-credits in Political Science or equivalent.
The course consists of lectures, seminars, and individual literature studies. The aim of the lectures is to support students' learning as a complement to individual studies of the required readings. The seminars include oral presentations and written assignments. They offer the opportunity to further discuss issues and concepts introduced throughout the course. Participation in the seminars is mandatory.
General rules regarding examination
A student who does not meet the requirements to pass an examination can, if decided by the course instructor, be given a complementary assignment to reach the requirements to pass the examination. The complementary assignment can be individually modified to the specific requirements that the student has failed to reach, but the assignment must be of corresponding proportion to the original examination.
Ordinarily, the complementary assignment is given at the end of the course or when the grades at the original examination is announced. When the student has been given the complementary assignment, he/she should finish the assignment within ten days (not including weekends and holidays). If the student fail to finish the assignment within the required time, a new complementary assignment can only be given the next time the course is arranged, or during the two weeks of re-take exams the Department arranges every year during week 34 and 35.
If it is not possible to do complementary assignments (if so, it is stated next to each individual examination above), the student is required to do a re-take exam. The first re-take exam should be given two months after the original examination, at the latest, but no sooner than ten days after the grade on the original examination has been given (not including weekends and holidays). If the examination is given during May or June, the first re-take exam should be given no later than three months after the original examination. Two weeks of re-take exams are also arranged every year, which means complementary assignments are treated during this time independently of when the course was given. These weeks are arranged during week 34 and 35.
Students who fail an examination may retake that examination. A student has the right to request a new examiner if he/she fails two sub-course examinations (i.e. an examination and a re-take). In such cases students should contact the Director of Undergraduate Studies (Studierektor). Examination in accordance with the same syllabus as during the original examination can be guaranteed for up to two years after the student's first registration.
The appointed examiner may decide to use other forms of examination if required by particular circumstances.
Transfer of Credits
Students who wish to transfer credits from other Departments or universities (Swedish or foreign) should do so in accordance to the Principal's decision "Tillgodoräknandeordning vid Umeå universitet (Dnr. 545-3317-02)".
The application must be submitted in written form. The request should specify which module or course the request applies to. An official transcript should also be submitted. The transcript must include the following information: where and when the course was given, the discipline and level of the course, total course credits and grade received. A syllabus describing the course and a list of required readings should be submitted with the request. Where applicable, written research papers should also be submitted.
Upon completion of this course, the credits can be transferred to a selective course. However it is always the responsible Department or program that determines the possibility for credit transfers and the extent of the credit transfer. The student should therefore always contact the responsible Department or program before submitting an application for credit transfers.
A written and anonymous course evaluation is given at the end of the course. During the course an oral evaluation is also arranged, and the student can also anonymously submit thoughts and opinions in digital form.
Coolsaet Brendan
Environmental justice : key issues
1st : London : Routledge : 2020 : online resource (xxii, 341 sidor) :
Online access for UMUB
ISBN: 9780429639166
Mandatory
Search the University Library catalogue
Usable environmental knowledge from the perspective of decision-making: the logics of consequentiality, appropriateness, and meaningfulness
Dewulf Art, Klenk Nicole, Wyborn Carina, Lemos Maria Carmen
Science Direct : 2020 :
Artikel online
Mandatory
Dobson Andrew
Environmental politics : a very short introduction
First edition. : Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press : 2016. : 133 pages :
ISBN: 978-0-19-966557-0
Mandatory
Search the University Library catalogue
Multi-level Environmental Governance: a concept under stress? The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability
Eckerberg Katarina, Joas Marko
Taylor & Francis : 2004 :
Artikel online
Mandatory
Institutional interplay in global environmental governance: lessons learned and future research
Elsässer Joshua Philipp, Hickmann Thomas, Jinnah Sikina, Oberthür Sebastian, Van de Graaf Thijs
International Environmental Agreements : 2022 :
Artikel online
Mandatory
Epstein Graham
Institutional fit and the sustainability of socialecological systems
Science Direct : 2015 :
Artikel online
Mandatory
Environmental Governance
Evans James, Thomas Craig
Routledge : 2023 :
ISBN
Mandatory
Reading instructions: Chapters 1, 2, 3, 5, 6
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