x Environmental Thought and Practice: Politics, Concepts, and Management
- Course Code:
- 104202052
- Unit value:
- 0.5
- Year of study:
- Year 2
Course Description
The module aims to explore environmental thought, practice, and politics from a number of different philosophical perspectives and instances of environmental politics. It introduces students to a range of theoretical and policy-driven conceptualisations of the environment, environmental problems and solutions at local, regional, and global scales. It enables students to address the thinking behind current environmental movements, politics and environmental management schemes and to facilitate a critical understanding of the philosophical underpinnings of past, modern, and future environmentalisms.
To find out more about this course and to check that it is running, please contact Dr Debby Potts, the Head of the SOAS Geography programme (debby.potts@kcl.ac.uk).
Objectives and learning outcomes of the course
At the completion of the module students should be able to appreciate the pivotal role of actors in contemporary environmental management and politics. Students should better understand the distinctive nature of individual actor’s interests, attitudes and actions and how these are shaped by, and can sometimes themselves shape, wider political and economic processes.
