Political Science: Environmental and Planetary Politics

Education facts

Code: STVN25

<p>Are you ready to explore the most pressing issues affecting our planet? Join us on a journey through the complex challenges of overconsumption, pollution, biodiversity loss, and climate change. Welcome to a course that inspires action!</p><p>In recent decades, it has become increasingly clear that human-driven overconsumption, pollution, biodiversity loss, and climate change endanger the habitability of the Earth. This course introduces how both environmental politics and planetary politics are needed to understand why appropriate political action to address overconsumption, pollution issues, biodiversity loss, and climate change have not been achieved and why such action currently remains more or less intangible. </p><p>The course is offered at the advanced level as an elective course in master’s programs or as a single subject course. It is based on active learning, a group-based pedagogy requiring active participation. Learning activities include lectures, case study work, group-based seminars, and coursework assessment. Participation in all elements is compulsory.</p>

Entry requirements

For admission to the course, students are required to have passed 90 credits in political science or peace and conflict studies (or equivalent), including a bachelor thesis in one of these disciplines, and an additional 60 credits of completed courses.

Education offerings

Each offering has its own dates and conditions. Closed offerings are retained as history and do not mean that a new application is open.

• Political Science: Environmental and Planetary Politics

  Lund University

  Start date: 2 November 2026

  End date: 17 January 2027

  Pace of study: 100 %