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SM10EV100: Environmental Governance and Climate Change Policy
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01/08/10 - 04/23/10 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM Fridays
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Location: | Seminar 318, Floor 3, Room 318
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The global economy is undergoing a "greening" as governments and companies around the world change the ways in which they address environmental protection. Not only is there an increasing awareness of the numerous threats to the earth’s integrated ecosystems, but nations increasingly realize the geopolitical effects of natural resource scarcity and other environmental impacts. This course will examine global environmental politics and policymaking through the lens of U.S. environmental protection efforts. In the 1970s, the U.S. created what were then innovative laws upon which many nations continue to model their own domestic environmental policymaking efforts. These will be examined along with the newer alternative policy approaches to the original command-and-control system of environmental regulation. Internationally, in recent years environmental policy regimes have evolved to address climate change and other environmental issues without the U.S. government taking a leadership role.
This at times has left the U.S. at odds with its own allies and increased tensions with some other nations. The course will assess the different domestic and international policy approaches taken to address the most serious environmental challenges to the planet and explore what the most effective role for U.S. is in what could be a new structure of world power based on resource scarcity. |
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