Course syllabi on changing environmental policy

[Forrest Fleischman]

Dear Colleagues,

I am developing a new course, and I'm looking for examples of other courses that have similar goals. 

The goal of my new course is for students to develop skills & plans for changing environmental policies. This builds on the course I teach, in which students learn how to analyze environmental policies and policy processes from a variety of perspectives, and is aimed at advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students whose goals include not only understanding and analyzing, but also implementing change. I was inspired to develop this course in part due to my own very positive experience as an undergraduate student activist, and also through seeing various student developed projects make a difference in university communities (for example: http://www.bloomingtoncommunityorchard.org/) and globally (eg I've heard that 350.org grew out of a class project at Middlebury). 

The course will be project-based: students will work in teams to develop proposals to change environmental policies, will implement part of these proposals, and will critique their own and other groups' work. I expect that the students will do background readings on a variety of topics including (but not limited to) the use of litigation, lobbying, protest, community-organizing, coalition-building, and various other forms of direct and indirect action as applied to changing environmental policy - the focus would probably be on local scale change, but might include both domestic (US) and international policy issues.

Although my background is in public policy, it seems that the research tradition I am a part of has not focused on these questions, and my reviews of syllabi that I am aware of has not yielded any similar courses. I would be interested in finding syllabi with similar goals, and/or suggested readings.  I will happily collect & compile responses off-list and send out a compilation.

-Forrest

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Forrest Fleischman
Assistant Professor

Department of Ecosystem Science & Management; Texas Agrilife Research

Texas A&M University
http://essm.tamu.edu/people/faculty/fleischman-forrest-d/

[Zachary Smith]

Forrest

 Please have a look at the ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY PARADOX (6th edition avalable as ebook for around $30).  I wrote it to do exactly what you describable.  Political science in general, and the texts that are common in political science are too narrow and do not integrate natural, physical and the other social sciences into the analysis of environmental policy.  It's not : these are the regs and policies and some politics.  Request a copy.  I think it would work for you non standard approach.

http://www.pearsonhighered.com/educator/product/Environmental-Policy-Paradox-The-6E/9780205855889.page

Zachary 

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[Leslie Wirpsa]

I will dig up my syllabus Globalization and the Politics of Food and send it to you. Local food issues and food security would be key.

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Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 12:01:33 -0700
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Subject: [gep-ed] Course syllabi on changing environmental policy

[Forrest D. Fleischman]

Dear colleagues,

A few weeks back I sent out a request for syllabi related to a course I'm developing on "changing environmental policies". I've compiled the responses, and developed a draft syllabus, which you can read here:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/zqwlqpus22armrt/SkZ6Uocin_

I won't be teaching the class until next fall, so if you have feedback, I'll be happy to talk more!

-Forrest

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