IGA-404: Managing a Living Planet: Governance Solutions for Global Environmental Problems

Semester: Not Offered

Credit: 1.0

Faculty: William Clark

Schedule

Day Time Location
First Day
Meet Day
Review

Description

Concerns for how human well-being can be increased in a world of finite resources have long been voiced at local and national levels. Increasingly, however, these concerns have escalated to the global stage. Transnational migration, disease pandemics, food security, and climate change are among the most recent issues that have crowded on to high-level agendas of global governance that were previously reserved for discussions of collective security and world trade. Such high-profile concerns, however, are all symptoms of a more fundamental transformation in which nature and society have become a single complex adaptive system, increasingly tightly coupled at all scales from local to global. This course explores the nature and implications of those interconnections for global affairs. It reviews the record of what has worked, and what has not, in past efforts to design effective institutional arrangments for managing them. And it challenges students to apply this knowledge in crafting solutions to a range of contemporary global environment problems.

Not offered in 2012-13.