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| Semester | Frühjahrsemester 2018 |
| Angebotsmuster | unregelmässig |
| Dozierende | Henri Rueff (henri.rueff@unibas.ch, BeurteilerIn) |
| Inhalt | Increasingly so, global governance sets targets and priorities, re-scopes knowledge, influences policies, and therefore impacts billions of people and the environment they live in across the world. Powerful instruments such as the Sustainable Development Goals set the standards for international donors, industries, governments, development agencies decisions and actions. Little is known however on the mechanisms explaining the development of these instruments, the flow of information from global to local levels, and the way stakeholders respond to global governance. Within the constellation of actors influencing both the production of global governance agendas, and their implementation locally through “participatory” approaches, this planetary top-down approach is unprecedented and influences transformation pathways. This course will deconstruct these processes holistically in two ways. First, by examining the content of reports guiding the Sustainable Development Goals, Climate Change, Desertification and Biodiversity global agendas, established respectively by, the UN Agenda 2030, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), and the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). Second, the course will reflect on how these agendas impact smallholders in remote rural areas with specific field observations collected from the Hindu Kush Himalaya region of Northern Pakistan and the Gobi desert. Within these regions, the course will take an environmental perspective by exploring “Sustainable Land Management” and “Land Use Change” local geographies, as well as land production as a function of farming practices scrutinized from a global governance lens. The integration of Clean Development Mechanisms and REDD+, two climate change mitigation instruments, will be assessed to see how they can impact land management decision. Students will acquire cutting-edge multi-scale and multi-stakeholder analytical skills while immersing themselves in the analyses of topical global governance themes. In addition, this course objective is designed to be interdisciplinary mixing disciplines such as economic risk modelling in agriculture, climate data analysis, soil physics, and qualitative analysis of global governance. |
| Literatur | Black, R., Bennett, S.R.G., Thomas, S.M., Beddington, J.R., 2011. Climate change: Migration as adaptation. Nature 478, 447–449. doi:10.1038/478477a Chin-Yee, S., 2016. Briefing: Africa and the Paris climate change agreement. Afr. Aff. 115, 359–368. doi:10.1093/afraf/adw005 Fröhlich, C.J., 2016. Climate migrants as protestors? Dispelling misconceptions about global environmental change in pre-revolutionary Syria. Contemp. Levant 1, 38–50. doi:10.1080/20581831.2016.1149355 Gupta, J., Vegelin, C., 2016. Sustainable development goals and inclusive development. Int. Environ. Agreem. Polit. Law Econ. 16, 433–448. doi:10.1007/s10784-016-9323-z Kok, M.T.J., Kok, K., Peterson, G.D., Hill, R., Agard, J., Carpenter, S.R., 2017. Biodiversity and ecosystem services require IPBES to take novel approach to scenarios. Sustain. Sci. 12, 177–181. doi:10.1007/s11625-016-0354-8 Norgaard, R.B., 2010. Ecosystem services: From eye-opening metaphor to complexity blinder. Ecol. Econ., Special Section - Payments for Environmental Services: Reconciling Theory and Practice 69, 1219–1227. doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2009.11.009 Stringer, L.C., Thomas, D.S.G., Twyman, C., 2007. From global politics to local land users: applying the United Nations Convention to combat desertification in Swaziland. Geogr. J. 173, 129–142. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4959.2007.00226.x Tollefson, J., 2015. Is the 2 °C world a fantasy? Nat. News 527, 436. doi:10.1038/527436a Vohland, K., Nadim, T., 2015. Ensuring the success of IPBES: between interface, market place and parliament. Phil Trans R Soc B 370, 20140012. doi:10.1098/rstb.2014.0012 Walls, H.L., Cornelsen, L., Lock, K., Smith, R.D., 2016. How much priority is given to nutrition and health in the EU Common Agricultural Policy? Food Policy 59, 12–23. doi:10.1016/j.foodpol.2015.12.008 |
| Weblink | Physiogeographie und Umweltwandel |
| Anmeldung zur Lehrveranstaltung | Vorabanmeldung via ADAM ab Donnerstag, 7. Dezember, 20:00 Uhr https://adam.unibas.ch/goto_adam_crs_137358.html, Teilnahmebegrenzung |
| Unterrichtssprache | Englisch |
| Einsatz digitaler Medien | kein spezifischer Einsatz |
| Intervall | Wochentag | Zeit | Raum |
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| Module |
Modul Fachkompetenz Globaler Wandel (Master Studienfach: Geographie) Modul Geography (Master Geowissenschaften (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2016)) Modul Geography and Climatology (Master Geowissenschaften) Modul Vertiefung Geosysteme und Umweltwandel (Master Studienfach: Geographie (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2015)) Vertiefungsmodul Global Europe: Umwelt und Nachhaltigkeit (Masterstudium: European Global Studies) |
| Leistungsüberprüfung | Lehrveranst.-begleitend |
| Hinweise zur Leistungsüberprüfung | Groups of 2 students (Masters), or 3 students (Bachelors): -Presenting a critical review of a scientific article -A 12-page essay on a topic students choose and approved by the lecturer (incl. 1 to 2 meetings with the lecturer to discuss content and progresses). |
| An-/Abmeldung zur Leistungsüberprüfung | Anm.: Belegen Lehrveranstaltung; Abm.: stornieren |
| Wiederholungsprüfung | keine Wiederholungsprüfung |
| Skala | Pass / Fail |
| Wiederholtes Belegen | beliebig wiederholbar |
| Zuständige Fakultät | Philosophisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät, studiendekanat-philnat@unibas.ch |
| Anbietende Organisationseinheit | Geowissenschaften |