BPL 531 - Environmental Politics and Region

Course Objectives

1. Illuminating environment and region concepts in environmental politics
2. Presenting traditional and contemporary approaches in environmental politics
3. Discussing important issues related with region and environmental politics
4. Evaluating already discussed subjects through cases from different

Course Description

Region and environment concepts; environment, politics and region; influential frameworks in environmental politics (political ecology, risk society, global security, environmental justice, sustainability and resilience); environment related issues in regional perspective (climate change, energy, water and agriculture, globalization and new institutionalizm, management, governance and risk, development and environmental protection); Europe, Mediterranean, Balkans, North America and Asia Pacific examples will be the subjects of this course