International Political Economy and Environment

1.5 credits · Graduate

Examines how relations of power in the global political economy shape environmental governance and how climate change and the environment shape the global political economy. Examines actors and considerations beyond climate science and multilateral organizations including: political ideology, private authorities, economic markets and colonial relations. Analyses how socio-economic and socio-environmental inequalities are produced and reproduced at global, national and subnational scales of governance.