DV413 Half Unit
Environmental Problems and Development Interventions
This information is for the 2024/25 session.
Teacher responsible
Prof Timothy Forsyth CON.8.05
Availability
This course is available on the MSc in Accounting, Organisations and Institutions, MSc in Anthropology and Development, MSc in China in Comparative Perspective, MSc in Development Management, MSc in Development Management (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ and Sciences Po), MSc in Development Studies, MSc in Economic Policy for International Development, MSc in Environment and Development, MSc in Health and International Development, MSc in International Development and Humanitarian Emergencies, MSc in International Relations (Research), MSc in Political Economy of Late Development, MSc in Political Science (Global Politics), MSc in Public Administration and Government (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ and Peking University), MSc in Public Policy and Administration, MSc in Regulation and MSc in Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship. This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit.
Also available to students taking MSc International Relations or MSc International Political Economy as part of the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳-Sciences Po Double Degree in Affairés Internationales programme.
Students will be allocated places to courses with priority to ID and joint-degree students. If there are more ID and joint-degree students than the course can accommodate, these spots will be allocated randomly.
Non-ID/Joint Degree students will be allocated to spare places by random selection with the preference given first to those degrees where the regulations permit this option. There will be limited avaialbility for those outside the ID department.
This course is capped at 50 students.
Pre-requisites
None
Course content
This course is for MSc students who wish to study social and political aspects of environmental change and its implications for international development. The aim is to summarise the key current debates about ‘environment and development’ from perspectives of social and political theory with special reference to institutional theory, livelihoods, and inclusive policy interventions.
The course is structured to analyse the challenges of making well-informed environmental interventions in the face of poverty and vulnerability, and then seeking practical solutions to these dilemmas. The course first considers the nature of environmental problems within a ‘development’ context, and what this mea