Global Environmental Governance
Are you interested in social, legal and natural science perspectives on global environmental governance?
The Global Environmental Governance (GEG) educational program incorporates these disciplines, and provides the opportunity for students to obtain a global environmental governance diploma concurrently with enrolment in an MSc program.
GEG is also a thematic course involving teachers from four different faculties, providing legal, political science, natural science, and life science perspectives on global environmental governance issues. The course generates 7.5 ECTS or 10 ECTS.
Field of Study
Global environmental problems are high on the international agenda. This is reflected in international regimes such as the Rio Protocol, the Kyoto Protocol, the UN's Millennium Goals, and COP 15, and in the growing number of national and international actors and organizations.
The global regimes increasingly set the agenda for national governments, who are also often met with increasing requirements of involving local populations in decision making.
The complex web that ensues lends itself to diffusions of authority, overlap, fragmentation, and problems of co-ordination and raises questions of how to best (re)organize relations between the many global and national actors, and the global society and the environment.
These and related issues are at the core of GEG.
Participants
GEG welcomes interested MSc students from all disciplines
Partners to the programme
The GEG programme is developed in collaboration between Forest & Landscape (LIFE), Institute of Food and Resource Economics (LIFE), Department of Political Science (SAMF), Faculty of Law (JUR) and the Department for Geography and Geology (SCIENCE).
The thematic GEG course has teachers from all the mentioned departments.
The course and programme is managed by LIFE.
More information
You can find information about the educational programme here: www.geg.life.ku.dk.
Find information about the thematic course on Global Environmental Governance here:
Iben Nathan, - last update:9 March 2012