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Global Environmental Challenges
Communication, Journalism & Media Studies Program
Madrid, Spain
Dates: 1/20/22 - 6/4/22
Global Environmental Challenges
OVERVIEW
CEA CAPA Partner Institution: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Location: Madrid, Spain
Primary Subject Area: Global Studies
Other Subject Area: Env. Sciences
Instruction in: English
Course Code: 16933
Transcript Source: Partner Institution
Course Details: Level 400
Recommended Semester Credits: 3
Contact Hours: 42
DESCRIPTION
I: Triggers and political processes and actors:
-Political and social processes and causes.
-State and non-state actors
-Transnational actors and movements in environmental politics
-Economic development, social inequality and environmental challenges.
II: Unpacking Important Themes in Global Environmental Politics
-Climate change
-The loss of biodiversity
-Delving into resources exploitation and waste
-Food supply and water
III: Global and local change: Ways forward
-The role of China in international environmental politics
-International regimes and their limits.
-Consumerism, life style and new movements
-The green new deal and the role of technology
-Political and social processes and causes.
-State and non-state actors
-Transnational actors and movements in environmental politics
-Economic development, social inequality and environmental challenges.
II: Unpacking Important Themes in Global Environmental Politics
-Climate change
-The loss of biodiversity
-Delving into resources exploitation and waste
-Food supply and water
III: Global and local change: Ways forward
-The role of China in international environmental politics
-International regimes and their limits.
-Consumerism, life style and new movements
-The green new deal and the role of technology