LAW239


Course Title Course Code Program Level
Environmental Issues HUK239 Law B.A. / B.Sc.

Course Term
(Course Semester)
Teaching and Learning Methods
Credits
Theory Practice Lab Projects/Field Work Seminars/Workshops Other Total Credits ECTS Credits
03
(Fall)
14x2 - - - - - 28 2 2,5

Teaching Staff Dr. G. Aslı Sezer Özçelik
Language of Instruction İngilizce (English)
Type Of Course Elective
Prerequisites
Recommended Optional Programme Component
Course Objectives Course Objectives 1-To learn about the basic terminology of environmental issues 2-To learn about the institutions involved in environmental issues 3-To learn about the international agreements and their effect over the national regulatory system 4-To learn about the impact of global environmental problems over the business life from a legal perspective
Course Content Course Description This course is designed with the aim of empowering the students to achieve an understanding of the environmental problems in connection with international law regime. Environmental issues already maintain an important place in International Law since addressing them is critical for global common interests of the world states and for safeguarding the planet. The course includes the study of global environmental challenges like climate change, ozone depletion, deforestation, extinction of species, etc. It also analyses functions and responses of various international actors such as states, international organizations, multinational corporations and non-governmental organizations in the face of global environmental threats. The role of the European Union as a global actor in relation to environmental problems will also be analyzed. Even though the course is mainly taught from the perspective of the discipline of International Law, it has a multidisciplinary approach and purpose bringing together environmental philosophy, political science and ecological economics.
Learning Outcomes (LO) Learning Outcomes 1. how environment can be associated with the international regimes 2. how a legal expert can contribute solving global environmental issues 3. how environmental issues impact conflict, and international security, and international politics on a system-level and state-level basis. 4. The role of different actors in shaping environmental policies 5. The role of business as a stakeholder that is changing and shaping global environmental issues.
Mode of Delivery Face to face
Course Outline
Week Topics
1. Week Introduction and the background of Environmental Issues
2. Week Sustainability as an approach to the global problems
3. Week Who is shaping the environmental policies and how
4. Week The Role of EU in determining the Agenda of Environmental Issues
5. Week Major international treaties on Environment
6. Week The effect of Environmental treaties over the national regulations
7. Week Mid Term Exam
8. Week Ecosystem services and Biodiversity as a global issue
9. Week Climate change: the science and the debate
10. Week The role of business and NGOs on Global Environmental Issues
11. Week Market based solutions to environmental issues and their legal basis
12. Week Environment, Trade and Finance
13. Week -The Environment and international peace and security -General Review and Q&A
14. Week Final Exam
Assessment
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Total(%) 100
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.
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