| Day | Date | Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friday | 10/04/24 | 10:30 AM - 02:00 PM | D5.1.004 |
| Friday | 10/11/24 | 10:30 AM - 02:00 PM | D5.1.004 |
| Friday | 10/18/24 | 10:30 AM - 02:00 PM | D5.1.004 |
| Friday | 10/25/24 | 10:30 AM - 02:00 PM | EA.5.030 |
| Friday | 11/08/24 | 10:30 AM - 02:00 PM | D5.1.004 |
| Friday | 11/15/24 | 10:45 AM - 02:15 PM | TC.4.13 |
| Friday | 11/22/24 | 10:30 AM - 02:00 PM | D5.1.004 |
In this course current environmental, social and economic challenges will be critically discussed and analyzed from a political economy and distributional perspective. The first part will deal with the global climate crisis and the way of how certain aspects of climate change are percieved and communicated in the public and political discourse and from different economic perspectives. The second part will deal with sources of unsustainable development, economic inequality as component of unsustainability and trends and drivers of economic inequality. Part three will discuss the vicous circle of environmental and social inequalities, adressing issues of unequal access to environmental resources, unequal exposure to environmental risks as well as unequal responsibility for pollution. In part four political, social and economic policy implications and concrete measures how to reduce inequalities in a finite world will be analyzed.
The course is interdisciplinary and will use concepts and literature related to Economics, Ecology, Sociology and Geography.
Participants of the course will learn to
80% compulsory attendance
please inform the lecturer beforhand in case you cannot attend a class
Additional details regarding the assessment will be discussed in the first class.
If you have a valid registration for the lecture, but will not participate, please deregister during the registration period of LPIS. Your place will be available for other students.
During the registration period, free places are filled according to the “first-come, first-served” principle.
After the end of the registration period, the number of places is increased and students on the waiting list will be registered for the lecture. Students in the Specialization-program will be added first, should places remain, they will be filled by BaWiSo-students based on their progress in their studies.
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