Welcome to POLI 375A Global Environmental Politics, Spring ’11
Jan 4th, 2011 by Dr. Raul Pacheco-Vega
Welcome to POLI 375A, Global Environmental Politics. It’s my intention to help you familiarize yourself with both theoretical and empirical ideas around global environmental governance. What makes governments act in the way they do when making life-changing decisions in regards to protection of their national habitats, compliance with international environmental agreements, participation in global environmental summits, to name a few. While POLI 351 Environmental Policy and Politics was a much more skill-building course, POLI 375A Global Environmental Politics is much more theoretical and knowledge-based. My courses usually involve a heavy amount of reading, critical and analytical thinking and a lot of in-class discussion and exercises. You should be prepared for this if you want to take this course.