Environmental Policies
Objectives
a) To understanding the basics of environmental policies;
b) To know the concepts and principles of environmental policies and international organizations Environment;
c) to know the tools of environmental policies at international, Community and European level;
d) To be able to develop scientific and technical capacity to assess the different levels of analysis, the effects of environmental policies;
e) To be able to conduct and develop environmental studies around the major contemporary issues;
f) To know how to report knowledge about environmental policies to different audiences.
General characterization
Code
722041055
Credits
10.0
Responsible teacher
Ana Isabel Costa Febrero de Queiroz
Hours
Weekly - 3
Total - 280
Teaching language
Portuguese
Prerequisites
None.
Bibliography
Cohen, Steven. 2014. Understanding Environmental Policy. Second edition. New York: Columbia University Press.
Dryzek, John S. 2013. The Politics of the Earth: Environmental Discourses. Third edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Harris, Paul G., ed. 2014. Routledge Handbook of Global Environmental Politics. London: Routledge.
Langlet, David, e Said Mahmoudi. 2016. EU Environmental Law and Policy. First edition. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
Layzer, Judith A. 2016. The Environmental Case: Translating Values into Policy. Fourth edition. Los Angeles: Sage Publications, CQ Press.
Vig, Norman J., e Michael E. Kraft, eds. 2019. Environmental Policy: New Directions for the Twenty-First Century. Tenth edition. Los Angeles: CQ Press.
Teaching method
Expositive and participative classes
Evaluation method
Evaluation method - Reading of thematic texts. Research work based on field work, references and document research resulting from autonomous work (100% evaluation). Oral presentation of the work.(100%)
Subject matter
This course works mainly in tutorial and practical way, aiming that the students can develop knowledge about of environmental policies at different levels of analysis. Related to the content of other courses, it seeks to equally address the major issues of environmental policies (and its incidence in different territories), according to the following syllabus:
1) Concepts and principles of environmental policies.
2) International Environmental Organizations.
3) Instruments for environmental policies.
4) Evaluation of environmental policies.
5) The main issues concerning environmental policies: Air quality and water; Waste; Oceans and coastal areas; Nature conservation; Urban environment; Soils and desertification; Energy; Ozone hole; Climate Change.