Unit information: Environmental Policy and Politics in 2011/12

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Unit name Environmental Policy and Politics
Unit code GEOGM1409
Credit points 20
Level of study M/7
Teaching block(s) Teaching Block 2 (weeks 13 - 24)
Unit director Professor. Fairbrother
Open unit status Not open
Pre-requisites

All core Term 1 units for the MSc in Environmental Policy and Management

Co-requisites

All core Term 2 units for the MSc in Environmental Policy and Management

School/department School of Geographical Sciences
Faculty Faculty of Science

Description including Unit Aims

This unit provides an advanced introduction to the kinds of decisions that governments and other public authorities make with respect to the environment (governance), and conflicts over those decisions and/or over who has the authority to make them (politics). The unit will consider administrative/political scales ranging from the local to the global, and actors ranging from individuals to international organisations.

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