SemesterSpring Semester, 2025
DepartmentMA Program of Public Administration, First Year PhD Program of Public Administration, First Year MA Program of Public Administration, Second Year PhD Program of Public Administration, Second Year
Course NameGlobal Environmental Governance
InstructorWONG WAI MAN NATALIE
Credit2.0
Course TypeElective
Prerequisite
Course Objective
Course Description
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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



 

Teaching Methods
Teaching Assistant
Requirement/Grading

Coursework: 100%



  



Class participation:                 20% (10% class participation; 10% seminar)



Mid-term In-class Test:            40%



Group Project:                      30% (10%: simulation; 15%: brief paper; 5% discussant)



TOTAL:                                  100%


Textbook & Reference

Required textbook:



Neil Carter, The Politics of the Environment: Ideas, Activism, Policy, 2nd ed. UK: Cambridge Press, 2007. 


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