Governance of Global Sustainability- Period 2 STEM in Amsterdam Program Fall 2021 Semester - Amsterdam

How can we govern the transition towards a more sustainable society? What are the mechanisms, interventions and governance approaches that are able to change unsustainable patterns and structures? The course addresses these questions related to people at various levels of aggregation: at the individual and social group level, at the level of organizations (such as the United Nations or the World Trade Organization), and at the level of political institutions (such as the state/government, cities/regions and private/transnational regimes). Our course will consequently survey the existing modes of governance towards behavioral and institutional change: authority, markets and networks. Methods to assess governance and transformative change are addressed and students identify for their specific case studies what strengths, opportunities, weaknesses, and threats are associated to the 'people dimension'. The course comprises lectures, workshops and a negotiation simulation and is evaluated through written assignment and a written exam.

Contact hours listed under a course description may vary due to the combination of lecture-based and independent work required for each course therefore, CEA's recommended credits are based on the ECTS credits assigned by VU Amsterdam. 1 ECTS equals 28 contact hours assigned by VU Amsterdam.