# ENVIRST/GEOG 534: Environmental Governance: Markets, States and Nature | UW–Madison

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### title

ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE: MARKETS, STATES AND NATURE

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Covers real-world questions of how the environment is managed and governed through state policy, economics, and social institutions. Includes strategies within and outside of the formal institutions of government, and extends the discussion to the commodification of nature and the use of science to understand and govern the environment. Also includes case studies of environmental governance in water, carbon, species, and urban sustainability.

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* State policy, economics, and social institutions in environmental management.
* Commodification of nature.
* Use of science in environmental governance.
* Case studies in water, carbon, species, and urban sustainability governance.

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## following

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