Module POC2114 for 2018/9
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
POC2114: Green Politics in Theory and Practice
This module descriptor refers to the 2018/9 academic year.
Please note that this module is only delivered on the Penryn Campus.
Module Aims
Environmental issues have become a major concern in both developed and developing countries. Environmental problems are closely related to and interact with developments at the national and global level. In this module, you will examine the history, ideals, goals, organisation, and key actors of environmental policy making in Britain and beyond. You will be familiarised with various competing national regulatory philosophies and look into political, economic and civil-societal approaches towards environmental regulation and protection. The implicit comparative perspective taken in this module will sensitise you to the challenges of generating effective international environmental policies. This will be further illuminated through a UN environmental conference simulation, which, in addition to helping you understand the opportunities and constraints for effective worldwide environmental policy, will enhance your skills in negotiating – a key employability skill. On this course, you will also analyse the changing role of green parties, grassroots organisations, academic experts and regulatory agencies in environmental policy-making. The module will combine theoretical approaches with case studies of major episodes and controversies in policy areas such as badger culling, pesticide use and climate change.
On successfully completing the programme you will be able to: | |
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Module-Specific Skills | 1. Demonstrate good knowledge of environmental politics and engagement with major theoretical debates through discussions in seminars, written work and a simulation. 2. Apply your knowledge of a country case by negotiating a countrys environmental position in a simulation and writing reflectively about it afterwards. |
Discipline-Specific Skills | 3. Assimilate taught materials and utilize them effectively to analyse environmental politics using key theoretical arguments 4. Collect secondary material and use it to understand a particular case study |
Personal and Key Skills | 5. Research and write a critical essay 6. Communicate complex arguments and negotiate |
Indicative Reading List
This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.
Basic reading:
N. Carter (2007) The Politics of the Environment: Ideas, Activism, Policy, Cambridge University Press (2nd edition).
A. Dobson (2007) Green Political Thought, Routledge (4th edition).
A. Jordan (2002) The Europeanization of British Environmental Policy, Palgrave.
A. Jordan and A. Lenschow (eds) (2008) Innovation in Environmental Policy: Integrating the Environment for Sustainability, Edward Elgar.
C. Knill and D. Liefferink (2007) Environmental Politics in the European Union: Policy-making, Implementation and Patterns of Multi-level Governance, ManchesterUniversity Press.
J. Connelly, G. Smith, D. Benson and C. Saunders (2012) Politics and the Environment, Routledge.