POLS 4344 Environmental Political Theory

This course explores competing definitions of “the environment,” different understandings of human’s relationship to the environment and how politics defines that relationship. The course will begin by examining the leading contemporary perspectives in environmental political theory and then turn to the problem of climate change and its social, political, and environmental repercussions where we examine important recent responses to these issues from the perspectives of the market, democracy, sustainability, and various forms of green radicalism. 

Credits

3

Prerequisite

All political science upper-level courses take POLS 2305 as a prerequisite.

Schedule Type

Lecture

Grading Basis

Standard Letter (A-F)

Administrative Unit

Political Science

Offered

Fall