Institutions for Sustainability
NRE 565
Credits: 3

Develops analytic concepts and draws on cases of resource practice to understand problems of collective action in achieving ecological and social sustainability. Focuses on institutions, broadly defined, from the local to the global,and their ability to reverse trneds in environmental degradation and promote long term goals. Issues include questions of durable resource use, production and consumption, property, development, conservation, trade, local-global interactions, international cooperation, diplomatics practice, and third party intervention. Uses readings, case discussion, simulation and lecture.