Away MAVE

The Distance Mode of MA in Values and the Environment at Lancaster University

410 Politics and the Environment

Module Description

This module is currently under construction for distance learning mode, in previous years at Lancaster it has included the topics below - please only read this as an indicative list.

Part I Environmental problems: market solutions?
1. Cost-benefit analysis and surrogate prices
2. Incommensurability
3. Property, care and the environment
4. Markets in environmental goods and harms
5. Austrian economics and ecological economics: some continuing debates

Part II. Time, narrative and community
6. Time and narrative
7. Sustainability, community and equality

Part III. Liberalism, neutrality and green perfectionism
8: Liberalism, virtues and perfectionism
9. The politics of wilderness: the problems of authoritarian environmentalism

IV Democracy, deliberation and environmental problems
10. Deliberative democracy
11. Representing Nature