• If students are interested in the global political struggle to create a sustainable relationship between people and our environment, perhaps the biggest challenge of our time, this track could be for them.
  • What, for example, are the political struggles that underpin the transition towards a fossil-free economy? How do we tackle global environmental problems with effective and legitimate governance? How can governments, cities, regions, companies, and civil society join forces to create new solutions to complex problems? And what about addressing the needs of both industrialized and developing countries?
  • This specialization focuses on global environmental governance; it marries international relations with environmental studies. students will unearth the complexity of global cooperation between politicians, policy-makers, multinationals, international organizations, civil society, and scientists when it comes to governing the environment.
  • Students will study environmental degradation from the perspective of politics and international relations and find out what the political aspects are of a range of environmental problems, such as climate change, biodiversity loss, deforestation, and unstainable fisheries. Students will develop their methodological skills and analytical toolbox, both qualitative and quantitative, and learn how to apply them to environmental challenges.
  • Students will work in various settings, in both large and small groups, to apply these methods to case studies. Students will formulate their own research questions and learn how to collect the right data to answer them. Students will familiarise themselves with the state-of-the-art research in this field and learn about research traditions and approaches.