Topics
This is an overview of the topics usually dealt with during the fall semester. In the log-in area schedule and required reading are available under schedule/readings and additional readings are available under resources (only available for students enrolled in the course).
Introduction
- Introduction to the European Union
- Introduction to European environmental policy – history and policies; institutions and processes (decision-making)
Policies
- Bioenergy – Solution for the energy crisis
- Climate Change and Climate Protection Policy
- Adaption to Climate Change
- The European water policy
- The European waste policy
- Ecological industrial policy
- Renewable energies
- Resource Efficiency
Instruments, approaches & Governance
- Environmental policy integration
- Participation , access to information and access to justice
- Behavioral approaches to environmental policy
- NGO's lobbying
- Common goods
The EU in the World
- United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
- Recycling Environmentalism: The EU as part of a global community for sustainable development?
- The EU and international environmental governance
- UN Climate Change Conferences
- Transatlantic relations and climate change / EU & US relations on environmental issues