wir904 - Environmental and Sustainability Policies (Complete module description)

students:
• have basic information about national and european environmental and sustainability governance
• describe the history of national and european environmental and sustainability governance
• reflect upon central principles, instruments, players and strategies in environmental and sustainability governance
• analyze selected topics of environmental and sustainability governance based upon central principles, instruments, players and strategies

Aden, Hartmut (2012): Umweltpolitik, Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag
Ambrus, M./Arts, K./Hey, E./Raulus, H. (Eds.): The Role of ‘Experts’ in International and European Decision-Making Processes. Advisors, Decision Makers or Irrelevant Actors? Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Jänicke, M. (1997): National Environmental Policies. Heidelberg: Springer
Jordan, A. (Hrsg.) (2004): Environmental Policy in the European Union: Actors, Institutions and Processes. London: Earthscan.
Kraft, Michael E. (2011): Environmental policy and politics. 5th ed. Upper Saddle River: Pearson Education
Ostrom, E. (2009): A General Framework for Analyzing Sustainability of Social-Ecological Systems, Science 325: 420
Hooghe, Liesbet and Makrs, Gary (2003). "Unraveling the Central State, but How? Types of Multi-level Governance." American Political Science Review 97(02): 233-243.

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