Dr Joanna Flavell CBG 10.08

This course is available on the MSc in Environmental Economics and Climate Change, MSc in Environmental Policy and Regulation, MSc in Environmental Policy, Technology and Health (Environmental Economics and Climate Change) (LSE and Peking University), MSc in Environmental Policy, Technology and Health (Environmental Policy and Regulation) (LSE and Peking University), MSc in Global Politics, MSc in International Affairs (LSE and Peking University), MSc in International Political Economy, MSc in International Political Economy (LSE and Sciences Po), MSc in International Political Economy (Research), MSc in Political Science and Political Economy and MSc in Regulation. This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit.

All students are required to obtain permission from the Teacher Responsible by completing the online application form linked to course selection on LSE for You. Admission is not guaranteed.

This course has a limited number of places (it is controlled access) and demand is typically high.

An introduction to concepts and issues in the study of global environmental politics, with special emphasis on the political economy of environmental protection. The course will explore environmentalism and the greening of society through different theoretical and ideological perspectives.  Throughout the course, students will interrogate what it means to demonstrate ‘environmental leadership’ and examine different environmental actors from non-state actors (NGOs and business), environmental movements and traditional political environmental leaders.  Students will expand their knowledge on different aspects of global environmental politics, engaging with concepts such as Sustainable Development;  private environmental governance; trade and environment;; climate change; biodiversity; deforestation.

This course is delivered through a combination of seminars and lectures totalling a minimum of 20 hours across Lent Term.

Students on this course will have a reading week in Week 6, in line with departmental policy.

Indicative List of Topics:

• Introduction: The rise of global environmentalism in international politics

• Environmental Theories and Perspectives

• Global Environmental Governance

• Environmental Movements

• Environmental NGOs and non-state actors

• Global Finance, aid and Sustainable Development

• Multinational corporations and private environmental governance

Students will be expected to produce 1 essay in the LT.

Betsill, M. M., K. Hochstetler and D. Stevis, Eds. (2014). Advances in International Environmental Politics. Basingstoke, Palgrave.

Biermann, F., & Kim, R. E. (2020). Architectures of Earth System Governance: Institutional Complexity and Structural Transformation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Chasek, Pamela S., Downie, David L., & Brown, Janet Welsh. (2021). Global Environmental Politics (8th edition ed.). London: Routledge.

Clapp, J. and P. Dauvergne (2011). Paths to a Green World: The Political Economy of the Global Environment. Cambridge, MA, MIT Press.

Corry, O., & Stevenson, H. (2017). Traditions and trends in global environmental politics: International relations and the earth. London: Routledge.

Death, C. (ed.). (2014). Critical environmental politics. Abingdon: Routledge.

Falkner, R. (2021). Environmentalism and Global International Society. Cambridge University Press.

Falkner, R. (2008). Business Power and Conflict in International Environmental Politics. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.

Falkner, R., Ed. (2016). The Handbook of Global Climate and Environment Policy. Cheltenham, John Wiley & Sons.

Jinnah, Sikina, & Morin, Jean-Frédéric. (2020). Greening through trade: How American trade policy is linked to environmental protection abroad. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Jordan, A., Huitema, D., van Asselt, H., & Forster, J. (Eds.). (2018). Governing Climate Change: Polycentricity in Action? Cambridge, Cambridge University Press

Take-home assessment (100%) in the ST.