Ce cours apparaît dans les formations suivantes :
• ESPOL - Master 1 Food Politics and Sustainable Development - S2 - 6 ECTS

Pré requis

N/A

Objectifs du cours

Our world is facing an onslaught of environmental problems, such as biodiversity loss, climate change, desertification, ozone depletion, and toxic pollution, among others. These interrelated problems often transcend national boundaries, making cooperation and coordination at all levels of society – from local communities to the international level – indispensable. Yet, despite efforts to address them, often via multilateral environmental agreements, these environmental problems persist and threaten communities around the world. In other words, we have struggled to govern our global commons.

In this course, we will examine the challenges our global community faces in addressing environmental problems and the politics behind it. Specifically, we will study the evolution of global environmental governance, as well as relevant actors (both state and non-state), and institutions. In doing so, students will be exposed to the factors that have shaped and continue to shape global environmental governance, established barriers to environmental cooperation, and strategies for overcoming them. By the end of the course, students will be able to:

(1) identify the economic, ideational, and political dynamics shaping international cooperation on environmental problems

(2) identify the main types of stakeholders in global environmental governance and their roles therein

(3) explain the functioning of and role of multilateral negotiations in addressing global environmental problems

(4) understand the limits of such a state-based system of cooperation

(5) critically assess the potential for transnational and other means of cooperation for addressing environmental problems

(6) analyse the effectiveness of global efforts to address particular environmental problems

Contenu du cours

Session 1: Introduction & the challenges of global environmental governance

Session 2: The power of ideas: the impact of world views, causal beliefs, and social norms on international environmental governance

Session 3: A short history of global environmental governance (emergence)

Session 4: States and regimes

Session 5: Non-state actors

Session 6: Assessing effectiveness in global environmental governance

Session 7: Making sense of the mess: overlapping institutions and multilevel governance

Session 8: International climate governance: getting to Paris

Session 9: International climate governance: Post-Paris

Session 10: Multilateral negotiations and environmental diplomacy

Session 11 (four hours): Simulation and wrap up

Modalités d'enseignement

Organisation du cours

The course is organised into 10 sessions of 2 hours and 1 session of 4 hours (24 hours total). The first 10 sessions will contain a mixture of interactive lectures, small-group exercises, and class discussions. During the final session, students will participate in a negotiation simulation on an international environmental issue. While the course spends a fair amount of time on climate governance, this is meant as a case study to expose students to dynamics shaping all other areas of global environmental governance.

Méthodes pédagogiques

Évaluation

Contrôle continu : coeff. 100

Bibliographie

• Allan, J. I., Roger, C. B., Hale, T. N., Bernstein, S., Tiberghien, Y., & Balme, R. (2021). Making the Paris Agreement: Historical Processes and the Drivers of Institutional Design. Political Studies, 71(3), 914–934. https://doi.org/10.1177/00323217211049294||
  Chasek, P., & Downie, D. (2020). Global Environmental Politics (8th ed.). Routledge.||
  Gupta, J., & Allan, J. I. (2023). “On Behalf of My Delegation…”: A survival guide for new and lonely climate change negotiators. International Institute for Sustainable Development. https://www.iisd.org/books/on-behalf-my-delegation-second-edition||
  Jordan, A., Huitema, D., Van Asselt, H., & Forster, J. (2018). Governing Climate Change: Polycentricity in Action? Cambridge University Press.||
  Keohane, R. O., & Victor, D. G. (2016). Cooperation and discord in global climate policy. Nature Climate Change, 6(6), 570–575. https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2937||
  Morin, J.-F., Orsini, A., & Jinnah, S. (2020). Global Environmental Politics: Understanding the Governance of the Earth. Oxford University Press.||
  Ostrom, E. (1990). Reflections on the commons. In Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action (pp. 1–28). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316423936.002||
  Raustiala, K., & Victor, D. G. (2004). The Regime Complex for Plant Genetic Resources. International Organization, 58(02), 277–309. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020818304582036||
  United Nations Environment Programme. (2019). Drivers of Environmental Change. In Global Environment Outlook – GEO-6: Healthy Planet, Healthy People (pp. 22–55). https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/27654

Ressources internet

• Climate Action Tracker

  
  

  Earth Negotiations Bulletin

  
  

  International Environmental Agreement (IEA) Database Project

  
  

  United Nations Environment Program