Module POL3250 for 2021/2
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
POL3250: Environmental Policy in Times of Crisis
This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 academic year.
Module Content
Syllabus Plan
Whilst the module’s precise content may vary from year to year, it is envisaged that the syllabus will cover some or all of the following topics:
- The environment as a policy problem;
- EU and British Environmental policy;
- Leaders and Laggards;
- Policy windows of opportunities or policy dismantling;
- EU economic crisis and environmental policy;
- Brexit and environmental policy;
- Agriculture;
- Climate Change;
- Fisheries.
Learning and Teaching
This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:
| Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | Guided independent study | Placement / study abroad |
|---|---|---|
| 22 | 128 | 0 |
...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:
| Category | Hours of study time | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Scheduled Learning & Teaching Activity | 22 | 11 x 2-hour seminars |
| Guided Independent Study | 50 | Private study reading and preparing for seminars |
| Guided Independent Study | 78 | Preparation for essay and assessed presentation including researching and collating relevant sources; planning the structure and argument; writing up the essay |
Online Resources
This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).
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.
Bache, I., & Jordan, A. (2006). The Europeanization of British Politics. In The Europeanization of British Politics (pp. 265-279). Palgrave Macmillan, London.
Bauer, M. W., & Knill, C. (2012). Understanding policy dismantling: an analytical framework. Dismantling public policies: Preferences, strategies, and effects, 30-51.
Carter, N. (2007). The politics of the environment: Ideas, activism, policy. Cambridge University Press.
Jordan, A. (2002). The Europeanization of British Environmental Policy: A Departmental Perspective. Springer.
Jordan, A. J., & Liefferink, D. (2004). Environmental policy in Europe: the Europeanization of national environmental policy. Routledge.
Jordan, A. (2012). Environmental policy in the European Union: actors, institutions, and processes. Earthscan.
Jordan, A., Bauer, M. W., & Green-Pedersen, C. (2013). Policy dismantling. Journal of European Public Policy, 20(5), 795-805.
Knill, C., Heichel, S., & Arndt, D. (2012). Really a front-runner, really a Straggler? Of environmental leaders and laggards in the European Union and beyond—A quantitative policy perspective. Energy Policy, 48, 36-45.
Liefferink, D., Arts, B., Kamstra, J., & Ooijevaar, J. (2009). Leaders and laggards in environmental policy: a quantitative analysis of domestic policy outputs. Journal of European public policy, 16(5), 677-700.
