Asia Pacific Policy Lab-Hybrid

3 Credits · Level: Graduate

This course represents a hybrid model for the Asia-Pacific environmental policy lab and takes advantage of students’ split location to include analytic work from the global literature and from interviews in DC-based organizations to strengthen students’ environmental problem statement before their summer fieldwork or internship in Jakarta. Students will have a separate, tailored discussion for the first two or three weeks of the course to help them design their Washington-based research, after which they will join the remote sessions taking place in Module 2. Once arriving in Jakarta, they will join the other groups, adding in a more extended field stay for data gathering. Fieldwork for this group will analyze what accounts for the gap between national policy and actual practice, with a particular focus on community-based natural resource management. The final product is a policy recommendation to the government that shows their understanding of institutional responsibilities for action.