EVD 5113 Foundations of Environmental Policy
3 units
Environmental Sustainability
Vice Rector Academic, Institute of the Environment
Study of the key political and administrative factors affecting the formulation and implementation of environmental policy, including democratic institutions, various methods for citizen and stakeholder engagement and their influence on the decision-making process in government, public opinion and the framing of policy problems, values and the use of scientific evidence in policy-making, lobbying and the role of interest representation, federalism and multi-level environmental governance, and the international governance of environmental problems. Case studies will place Canada in a comparative context and explore the importance of political factors across areas of environmental policy.
Components:
Seminar
Previously Offered Terms:
Fall
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