Globalization and the Environment
Code
711071059
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Estudos Políticos
Credits
6
Teacher in charge
Teresa Rodrigues
Weekly hours
4
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
a) Acquire general skills to recognize the progress of globalization and environmental issues and their consequences in international relations from the main current theoretical frameworks.
b) Ability to acquire structural analysis of existing risks and identify possible instruments to respond in a world increasingly global.
c) Identify States strategies and actions other actors in the contemporary international scene.
Prerequisites
None.
Subject matter
This unit encourages debate on the concept of globalization and its various aspects, in general, and on environmental issues, in particular. Evaluates the impact of recent changes in international relations due to the process of growing interdependencies generated by globalization with its impacts on theoretical and practical level.
It is organized in four modules:
1st Module - Globalization and Environment: Historical Context & Interpretation in the light of International Relations;
2nd Module - The Challenges of Globalization and the Environment - Risks and International Affairs;
3rdModule - Possible Response Instruments;
4thModule -Presentation of Research Works (Assessment) .
Bibliography
GRANIER, Gérard, VEYRET, Yvette, Le Developpement Durable Quelles Enjeux Géographiques, Dossier n.º 8053, Collection: Documentation Photographique, Paris: La Documentation Française, 2006.;
HELD, David; McGREW, Anthony, Globalization/ Anti-Globalization: Beyond the Great Divide, 2ªed., Cambridge: Polity Press, 2007.;
SANTOS, F. D., Problemática das Alterações Climáticas no Início do Século XXI, in: Santos, F. D. e Miranda P. (ed), Alterações Climáticas em Portugal: Cenários, Impactos e Medidas de Adaptação Projecto SIAM II, Gradiva: Lisboa, 2006.;
SCHELLNHUBER, Hans Joachim [et al.], Climate Change as a Security Risk, German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU), Berlim: WBGU, 2008;
STIGLITZ, Joseph, Making Globalization Work, W.W. Norton & Company: NY, US, 2006.
Teaching method
Presentation of the different subjects by the teacher and other invited specialists. Presentation and discussion of texts and of the students individual researches.
Evaluation method
10% Attendance and participation;
20% Written test;
10% Abstract;
15% Oral Presentation;
45% Individual Report (paper version and CD).