FSS:ENSb1282 Politics, Ideology and Environ - Course Information

ENSb1282 Politics, Ideology and Environment

Extent and Intensity

1/1/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).

Teacher(s)

Mgr. Vojtěch Pelikán, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Ing. Dominika Tóthová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Matyáš Křížkovský (lecturer)

Guaranteed by

prof. RNDr. Hana Librová, CSc.
Department of Environmental Studies – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: Mgr. Kateřina Hendrychová
Supplier department: Department of Environmental Studies – Faculty of Social Studies

Timetable

Thu 10:00–11:40 AVC

Prerequisites

! ENS282 Politics, Ideology and Environ &&!NOW( ENS282 Politics, Ideology and Environ )
The presumption for the participation in the course is the acknowledgement with basic terminology of environmental studies and general knowledge of political structure in the Czech Republic.

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

• Environmental Studies (programme FSS, B-ENV) (5)

Abstract

Course provides to the students basic orientation in political ideologies and in their importance for the environmental issues. Participants will obtain general overview about environmental dimension of the Czech party system and they will adopt basic conceptual framework to theoretically discuss and analyze the political discourse in both historical and global context.

Learning outcomes

Course participants will be able to:
- analyze ideological presuppositions of environmental policies
- distinguish between main environmentally-relevant ideological streams
- describe histroy of environmentally-focused political efforts
- orient themselves in a politics of "green parties"
- define terms commonly used in environmental politics
- describe legislatory structure of environmental politics and policy
- identify instruments of environmental policy

Key topics

• 1) Ideology, power, polity and politics
• 2) Main political ideologies form environmental perspective (liberalism, conservatism, socialism, anarchism)
• 3) Eco-dictatorship, ecofascism
• 4) Evolution of the czech ecological politics
• 5) Czech party system from environmental perspective
• 6) European and global environmental politics

Study resources and literature

recommended literature
• ROMM, Joseph. Climate Change: What Everyone Needs to Know. Oxford University Press, 2018. ISBN 978-0-19-086611-2. info
• DRYZEK, John S. The politics of the earth : environmental discourses. 3rd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013, xv, 270. ISBN 9780199696000. info
• CARTER, Neil. The politics of the environment : ideas, activism, policy. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007, xxi, 410. ISBN 9780521687454. info
• DOBSON, Andrew. Green political thought. 3rd ed. London: Routledge, 2000, xii, 230. ISBN 0415222044. info

Approaches, practices, and methods used in teaching

lectures, class disicussion, reading

Method of verifying learning outcomes and course completion requirements

Active attendance on seminars
Essay
Final test

Language of instruction

Czech

Further Comments

Study Materials
The course is taught annually.

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