Module Title: Global Environmental Governance
Module Leader: Dr Liana Minkova
Module Description:
This module engages with global environmental governance by exploring questions of power, knowledge, and authority in relation to the construction and operationalisation of international regulations. Over the course of seven weeks, we will discuss the discourses, practices, and actors that have turned nature into a governable object, as well as the tools through which such governance is enacted. Specifically, the module will focus on the history of global environmental governance, the concepts of sustainable development and market environmentalism, the international climate change regime, the role of non-governmental organisations, experts, and international courts in the field, the proposed new crime of ecocide, and the future of international institutions in the age of the Anthropocene.