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Course Info for INTS - 263 - 01, Spring 2024
Class number: 2788 Title: Global Environmental Politics Department: International Studies
Career: Undergraduate Component: Lecture Session: Regular
Instructor's Permission Required: No Grading Basis: Regular Units: 1.00
Enrollment limited to 25 Current enrollment: 9 Available seats: 16
Start date: Monday, January 22, 2024 End date: Friday, May 10, 2024 Mode of Instruction: In Person
Schedule: TR: 2:55PM-4:10PM, SH - N128 Instructor(s): Fernandez Milmanda, Belen
Prerequisite(s): None
Distribution Requirement: Meets Social Sciences and Global Requirements
Note: No seniors unless by Instructor Permission.
Course Description:
This course tackles the most important challenge of our time: how societies may continue to develop without destroying the planet. We will focus on the causes and consequences of differences in environmental policy design and implementation at the subnational, national and international level. Looking primarily at developing countries, we will analyze how different economic, societal and state actors strive to influence policy outcomes and how these political struggles result in more or less successful initiatives to mitigate environmental depletion and climate change. Topics include, but are not limited to: water pollution, deforestation, energy policy, air pollution, overfishing, and ozone layer depletion.