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 Academic Year: | 2016/7 |
| Owning Department/School: | Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies |
| Credits: | 6 [equivalent to 12 CATS credits] |
| Notional Study Hours: | 120 |
| Level: | Honours (FHEQ level 6) |
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| Assessment Summary: | CW 33%, ES 67% |
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| Requisites: | Before taking this module you must take PL20385 |
| Description:
| Aims: This unit focuses on the relationship between environmental/sustainability politics and democratic politics. The main aims are: * to explore what environmental politics (as opposed to natural science research into the biophysical environment) is actually about, i.e. to explore the competing ways in which eco-political actors frame their respective issues of concern; * to investigate how environmental and sustainability politics link into emancipatory-democratic agendas; * to study the appeal and utility of non-democratic or even authoritarian styles of eco-political government. Learning Outcomes: Students who complete the unit successfully will be able to demonstrate: * a clear grasp of different eco-political theories and competing conceptualisations of nature, the environment and sustainability; * familiarity with the development and ongoing reconfiguration of eco-political discourses over the fast few decades; * ability to understand and contribute to contemporary debates about the advantages and drawbacks of democratic policy approaches to issues of sustainability. Skills: Skills in critical analysis, conceptual thinking, precision in the use of written and spoken academic discourse, exercise of independent judgement, reasoned argument, teamwork and the planning/conduct/reporting of non-quantitative research are developed and assessed in this unit. Content: * Competing notions of nature, the environment and sustainability; * Competing conceptualisations of what constitutes an environmental problem; * Competing understandings of the relationship between environmental and emancipatory-democratic politics; * Environment and sustainability in the post-democratic constellation; * non-democratic and authoritarian approaches to sustainability policy. |
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PL30890 is Optional on the following programmes:Department of Economics
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