The environment and international relations

By the end of the course, students should be able to understand the environment using the lenses of international relations theory and practice and be able to master a wide set of issues relating to the environment and other closely associated questions.

Knowledge

1. Understand the environment using the lenses of international relations theory and practice.

2. Understand the ‘climate crisis’; key issues and actors in relation with environmental change; state- and non-state-led governance, legal or economic; the environment and international relations in the 21st century.

Thinking Skills

3. Select arguments and data to understand environmental issues within the discipline of international relations.

4. Learn about issues and actors with respect to the environment, as well as state- and non-state-led governance, legal and economic.

Subject-Based Practical Skills

5. Collect and analyse data relating to the study of the environment within the specific field of international relations.

6. Utilise online data retrieval systems to gain information relevant to the study of the environment within the discipline of international relations.

Skills for Life and Work (General Skills)

7. Present data and produce one PowerPoint presentation and one Commentary.