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166-229 The Politics of Ecology | |
Note | Available as 166-329 at 3rd-year level. |
Availability | Not offered in 1998. |
Credit Points | 16.7 2nd and 3rd year |
Coordinator | John Dryzek |
Prerequisites | 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 |
Subject Description | Ecological problems present special challenges to political systems. The politics of ecology are analysed through scrutiny of the last thirty years of political discourse on environmental issues. The responses examined include survivalism, liberal democratic politics, markets, participatory democracy, green politics, sustainable development, and ecological modernisation. Reference will be made throughout to concrete issues such as wilderness, global climate change, pollution, nuclear power, and biodiversity. 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. |
Assessment | Essay work or equivalent totalling 5000 words. |
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