Postgraduate Course: Global Resource Governance: environments and policies in a context of global change (PGSP11404)
Course Outline
| School | School of Social and Political Science |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 15 |
ECTS Credits | 7.5 |
| Summary | This course is about how societies govern and manage key environmental resources and resource intensive sectors in a global context. Drawing from the interdisciplinary academic field of Science, Technology and Innovation Studies (STIS), we will analyse how socio-economic processes and interactions between knowledge, politics and technologies influence how we frame environmental issues and begin to address them in different ways.
The course focuses on global environmental issues, processes and challenges from the perspective of the STIS academic literature, but also from that of policy practitioners, and will include talks from representatives of a range of organisations on their experiences. The aim of the course is not to provide training in the techniques of assessment and policy- or decision-making; rather the aim is to understand their role and the implications of their use, and to consider how, why and where they are being deployed to govern resources and environmental issues. The course does however provide the necessary background at a level appropriate to non-specialists.
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| Course description |
This course is about how societies govern and manage key environmental resources and resource intensive sectors in a global context. Drawing from the interdisciplinary academic field of Science, Technology and Innovation Studies (STIS), we will analyse how socio-economic processes and interactions between knowledge, politics and technologies influence how we frame environmental issues and begin to address them in different ways.
The course focuses on global environmental issues, processes and challenges from the perspective of the STIS academic literature, but also from that of policy practitioners, and will include talks from representatives of a range of organisations on their experiences. The aim of the course is not to provide training in the techniques of assessment and policy- or decision-making; rather the aim is to understand their role and the implications of their use, and to consider how, why and where they are being deployed to govern resources and environmental issues. The course does however provide the necessary background at a level appropriate to non-specialists.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2015/16, Available to all students (SV1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Semester 2 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
150
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Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 3,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
147 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
- 70% 1500-2000 word end-of-course policy brief.
- 10% Week 9/10, environmental policy brief presentation.
- 20% Critical assessment of a selected policy document - mid-way through semester.
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| Feedback |
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- - Have a substantial knowledge and understanding of a selection of important environmental and resource issues and of the governance institutions at all levels relevant to them, including inter-relations between levels;
- - Possess a critical understanding of the principal theories, concepts and principles of Science, Technology and Innovation Studies as it relates to environmental and resource governance issues;
- - Can identify and evaluate a selection of techniques and procedures used in environmental policy analysis, decision-making and assessment;
- - Can critically evaluate contributions to academic and public debates on environmental issues, and decisions on them;
- - Have developed their skills in finding and using arguments and information; in critically evaluating such materials; and writing and seminar presentation.
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Reading List
BOLTON, R. & FOXON, T. 2014. Infrastructure transformation as a socio-technical process - implications for the governance of energy distribution networks in the UK Technological Forecasting and Social Change (2014)
Bradshaw, M J (2010) 'Global Energy Dilemmas: A Geographical Perspective,' The Geographical Journal, Vol. 176, No. 4, pp. 275-290, DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4959.2010.00375.x.
Bridge, G. Global production networks and the extractive sector: governing resource-based development. Journal of Economic Geography. 2008;8:389-419.
DEFRA 2012. Resource security action plan: Making the most of valuable materials. UK Government, London
MACKENZIE, D. 'Constructing Carbon Markets: Learning from Experiments in the Technopolitics of Emissions Trading Schemes,' in Disaster and the Politics of Intervention, edited by Andrew Lakoff (New York: Columbia University Press 2010), 130-148
MARKARD, J., RAVEN, R. & TRUFFER, B. 2012. Sustainability transitions: An emerging field of research and its prospects. Research Policy, 41, 955-967.
Paavola, J., and K. Hubacek. 2013. Ecosystem services, governance, and stakeholder participation: an introduction. Ecology and Society 18(4): 42.
UNRUH, G. C. 2000. Understanding carbon lock-in. Energy Policy, 28, 817-830.
YEARLEY, S. 1996. Sociology, Environmentalism, Globalization: Reinventing the Globe, London, Sage.
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
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| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Prof Steven Yearley
Tel: (0131 6)51 3868
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Course secretary | Mr Lee Corcoran
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