| Course Content |
The main objective of the course is to analyse the concept of sustainable development in theory and practice
specifically focusing on the interactions between the public domain, business world and the world we live in.
Past and present strategies for promoting sustainable development, resistance to the concept, and some
alternative conceptions and theoretical underpinnings of the notion of sustainable development will set the
basis of discussions while the implications of the concept in politics of various sectors such as energy,
transport, environment, agriculture and natural resource management will be explored from an international
law perspective. In particular, the course will help the students to establish a connection between economic
development and environment in terms of sustainability in the long-term and will help them to understand
why international economic competition has and will have a continuous and pressing sustainability
dimension. Topics like fast growth vs zero growth, production patterns, and population change will be
reformulated from an environmental point of view allowing for critical thinking for future.
In addition to this the basics of the science behind the climate change debate and negotiations will be
presented. The tools to tackle the climate change challenge such as market based mechanism will be
explored. |
| Course Book (s) and/or References |
Recommended reading List:
Bache, Ian and Stephen George. Politics in the European Union. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.
Baker, Susan. “Environmental values and climate change policy: Contrasting the European Union and the United States.” In Values and Principles in European Union Foreign Policy. Edited by Sonia Lucarelli and Ian Manners, 77-96. New York: Routledge, 2007.
Brenton Tony. The Greening of Machiavelli; The Evolution of International Environmental Politics. London: Earthscan, 1994.
Collins, Lynda. “Environmental Rights for the Future? Intergenerational Equity in the EU.” RECIEL 16(3), 2007, pp. 321-331.
Connelly, J and Graham Smith. Politics and the Environment: From Theory to Practice. London: Routledge, 1999.
Deudney, Daniel. “Global Environmental Rescue and the Emergence of World Domestic Politics”, pp. 280-305 In The State and Social Power in Global Environmental Politics. Edited by Ronnie Lipschutz. and Ken Coca, 280-305. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993.
Devetak R., Anthony Burke and Jim George (eds). An Introduction to International Relations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Eckersley, Robyn. “Global Environmental Politics.” In An Introduction to International Relations: Australian Perspective. Edited by Richard Devetak, Anthony Burke and Jim George, 362-372. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Falkner, Robert “The European Union as a 'Green Normative Power”? EU Leadership in International Biotechnology Regulation.' Center for European Studies Working Paper Series 140, Harvard University, November 2006.
Falkner, Robert. “The New Geopolitics of Climate Change after Copenhagen”, World Economic Forum, Industry Vision, January 2010.
Jordan, Andrew (ed). Environmental Policy in the European Union. ( 2nd ed.) , London: Earthscan, 2005.
Kelemen, R.D. and Vogel D.,Trading Places: The Role of the United States and the European Union in International Environmental Politics, Comparative Political Studies
43(4) 427-456 © 2010 SAGE Publications
Knill, Christoph and Duncan Liefferink. Environmental Politics in the European Union. New York: Manchester University Press, 2007.
Lipschutz, R. and Ken Coca (eds). The State and Social Power in Global Environmental Politics. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993.
Lucarelli, Sonia and Ian Manners (eds). Values and Principles in European Union Foreign Policy. New York: Routledge, 2007.
McCormick, J. Understanding the European Union: A Concise Introduction.. New York : Palgrave MacMillan, 2005.
Porter, Gareth and Janet Welsh Brown. Global Environmental Politics. (3rd ed.) U.S. : Westview Press, 2000.
Stafford, Sue. “Intellectual Virtue in Environmental Ethics.” Environmental Ethics, Winter 2010, Vol.32, pp. 339-352.
Vogler, John. “Future Directions: The atmosphere as a global commons.” Atmospheric Environment, 2001, 35, pp. 2427-2428.
Vogler, John. “The institutionalization of trust in the international climate regime”, Energy Policy (2010), 38: 2681-2687.
Ydersbond, Inga Margrete and Marius, Stoylen Korsnes. ’What drives investment in wind energgy? A comparative study of China and the European Union.’ Energy Research and Social Science, 12, 2016, 50-61.
Zito, Anthony R. “The European Union as an Environmental Leader in a Global Environment.” Globalizations December 2005, Vol 2 (3), pp. 363-375. |