The Politics of Climate Change and Sustainability
London School of Economics
Political Science
2022
Michael Lerner
Masters
Documentary Video / Films,Simulations
This course introduces students to the political dynamics underlying environmental governance and investigates the ways in which politics and policy shape the pace of sustainable transitions, attempts to mitigate climate change, and the struggle to adapt to a more uncertain climate. The course provides a survey of core and emerging topics in environmental politics and policy, such as climate obstruction, environmental authoritarianism, and the governance of geoengineering. A unifying theme of the course will be its frequent attention to the political economy of climate (in)action. The course will also offer foundational instruction in the use of the comparative method to describe and explain variation in environmental politics. This course focuses primarily, but not exclusively, on domestic environmental politics in advanced industrialized democracies.