PIA 2502 - ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY: LOCAL & GLOBAL

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course explores the ways in which policy can protect people from environmental and health harms, on local and global scales, and the factors that cause such policy to succeed or fail. We discuss a variety of environmental challenges (e.g., stratospheric ozone depletion, e-waste management, plastic pollution, waste exports); attempted solutions with varying success (e.g., the Montreal Protocol and current efforts to draft an international plastics treaty); and the roots of these problems and barriers to solutions. Environmental issues are often borne from governance structures that enable the undervaluation of sustainable practices and their benefits while externalizing pollution costs. We explore how policies can change this, especially by making companies internalize their pollution costs, and how citizens’ oversight of regulatory agencies, including NGO-led litigation, can lead to better policy and protections.
Academic Career: Graduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Grad Letter Grade
Course Attributes: Global Studies, MCSI - Sustainability Related

Click here for class schedule information.

Add to Portfolio(opens a new window)