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UC Santa Barbara - ESM 595II: International Environmental Governance |
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The recent past has witnessed a remarkable growth in
the number and variety of regimes or governance systems dealing with environmental
issues in international society. But do these arrangements make a difference
in the sense that the state of the world is different than it would have
been in the absence of their creation? How can we explain variance in
the effectiveness of these governance systems.? What are the relative
merits of different ways of measuring effectiveness and different methods
for arriving at persuasive conclusions about degrees or levels of effectiveness
in specific cases?
This course is designed for graduate students who want
to think systematically about questions of this sort. The course will
review the major conceptual approaches to these issues and assess the
advantages and disadvantages of a range of analytic procedures available
to address them in specific cases. The goal is to develop a toolkit containing
a variety of tools that can be employed to good advantage in conducting
research in this field.
Professor: Oran R. Young School: University of California, Santa Barbara Last Updated: March, 2004 |
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UC Santa Barbara - ESM 247: Governance for Sustainable Development |
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We live in a rapidly changing world. In the last 70 years, world population has tripled and is projected to peak in around 2050 at 9-10 billion. Human society is rapidly increasing pressure on the Earth's critical life-support systems - such as the carbon, hydrological, and nitrogen cycles. Recent years have seen an explosion of economic activity increasing the wealth and well being of many segments of human society, but not all. Some two billion people still subsist on $2 a day. What are the fundamental issues of sustainable development facing human society and the environment? What are the main challenges or problems facing us during the next 30 to 50 years that will require governance as part of their solution?
This course seeks to engage students to think deeply and creatively about one of the principal challenges of our era: creating systems of governance to address the multiple issues of sustainable development.
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course's syllabus.
Professors: Young, Zaelke, Stilwell School: University of California, Santa Barbara Last Updated: July, 2004 |
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