Spring 2027

Environmental Governance: Markets, States and Nature

Examines environmental management and governance through state policy, economics, and social institutions, including market strategies and case studies in water, carbon, species, and urban sustainability.

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2016: 3.88 GPA, 87.5% A/AB (n=8 letter grades); Spring 2022: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=14 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Explain the concepts of governance and the tools for its analysis.

  • Identify the tools, concepts, and controversies associated with market-based environmental governance and its origins in debates over the past century.

  • Discuss the variety of traditions in understanding the relationship between states, civil society, and the environment.

  • Describe and articulate connections and common themes in environmental governance as they are expressed in a variety of settings such as economic globalization, urban planning, water resource development, conservation, and climate change.

  • Discuss the scholarly literature around environmental governance, state theory, and neoliberalism.

Source: UW Guide 1 UW Guide 2

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ENVIRST/GEOG 534

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2016: 3.88 GPA, 87.5% A/AB (n=8 letter grades); Spring 2022: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=14 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Environmental management and governance through state policy, economics, and social institutions.
  • Strategies within and outside formal government institutions, commodification of nature, and the use of science to govern the environment.
  • Case studies of environmental governance in water, carbon, species, and urban sustainability.
  • Scholarly literature on environmental governance, state theory, and neoliberalism.

Skills

  • Explain governance concepts and analytical tools for managing the environment through state policy, economics, and social institutions.
  • Identify tools, concepts, and controversies of market-based environmental governance and their historical origins.
  • Discuss scholarly traditions regarding the relationship between states, civil society, and the environment.
  • Articulate connections and themes in environmental governance across settings like globalization, urban planning, water, conservation, and climate.

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