Week

Topic

Week 1

Introduction to the Course

What is environmental politics? 

Week 2

What is the environmental problem? Philosophical Debates on the environment

Week 3

Driving Forces, Institutions and Actors in Environmental Politics: How do the driving forces achieve a sustainable society?

Week 4

Environmental Challenges: What are some of the main problems human beings have created / are facing nowadays?

Week 5

The making of environmental policy: Where does power lie in environmental policymaking?

Week 6

The politics of science and the shaping of public opinion

Week 7

Mid-term test

Week 8

Sustainable development and economic growth: The relationship between the legal order of free trade and environmental protection

Week 9

Effectiveness of international environmental regimes?

Week 10

Selected issues in global environmental politics (I):

Environmental Problems in Authoritarian regime

Week 11

Selected issues in global environmental politics (II):

Environmental Problems and environmental movement

Week 12

Selected issues in global environmental politics (III):

Transboundary environmental problems in ASEAN

Week 13

Group presentation (I)

Week 14

Group presentation (II)

Week 15

Revision

Week 16

Paper Preparation & Consultation