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Credit points: 16.7 2nd and 3rd years
Coordinator: John Dryzek.
Prerequisite: Normally 25 points of first-year Politics; students with only 12.5 points in Politics may apply to the 2nd/3rd-year coordinator.
Contact: Two 1-hour lectures, and one 1-hour tutorial per week.
Timetable: Second semester
Objectives:
Students who complete this subject should be able to:
- analyse environmental problems and
- understand and deploy a range of frameworks for the analysis of environmental problems and politics;
- understand how environmental politics has developed since 1970.
Content:
An examination of the special challenges that ecological problems present to political systems, and the kinds of responses available. Alternative responses examined will include centralised and co-ordinated control, markets and quasi-markets, liberal democratic politics, participatory democracy, green politics
Assessment:
Essay work or equivalent totalling 5,000 words.
Prescribed texts:
1. Politics, Faculty of Arts (v3, p152) : Next:166-230 | Prev:166-228
2. Politics, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p164) : Next:166-230 | Prev:166-228
Credit points: 16.7
Coordinator: John Dryzek.
Contact: Two 1-hour lectures, and one 1-hour tutorial each week.
Timetable: Second semester.
Objectives:
Students who complete this subject should be able to:
- analyse environmental problems and
- understand and deploy a range of frameworks for the analysis of environmental problems and politics;
- understand how environmental politics has developed since 1970.
Content:
An examination of the special challenges that ecological problems present to political systems, and the kinds of responses available. Alternative responses examined will include centralised and co-ordinated control, markets and quasi-markets, liberal democratic politics, participatory democracy, green politics
Assessment:
Essay work or equivalent totalling 5,000 words.
Prescribed texts:
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2. Politics, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p164) : Next:166-230 | Prev:166-228
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