Structural Change in Europe II: European Sustainability Policy
Brief description
- Climate change and other global challenges (planetary boundaries, global north and global south)
- International environmental and sustainability policy, UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)
- Foundations and principles of European environmental and sustainability policy
- EU regulatory and steering powers or instruments of European environmental and sustainability policy
- Actors in environmental and sustainability policy (governments, industry, media, science, trade unions, non-governmental organisations, etc.)
- In-depth treatment of selected topics of current European sustainability policy, e.g. energy security policy and energy union, Green Deal and Just Transition, emissions trading and CO2 prices
- Basics of corporate sustainability management (sustainable risk management, CSR, ESG, sustainable finance/EU taxonomy)
Mode of delivery
face to face
Type
compulsory
Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
Jordan, Andrew/Gravey, Viviane (Hrsg., 2021): Environmental Policy in the EU: Actors, Institutions and Processes, 4. Aufl., Abingdon/New York: Routledge.
Rogall, Holger/Gapp-Schmeling, Katharina (2021): Nachhaltige Ökonomie, Band 1: Grundlagen des nachhaltigen Wirtschaftens, 3. Aufl., Marburg: Metropolis.
Wurzel, Rüdiger K. W. et al. (2019): „The European Council, the Council and the Member States: Changing Environmental Leadership Dynamics in the European Union”, in: Environmental Politics, 28:2, S. 248-270.
Current literature will be announced by the lecturer at the beginning of the semester.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Teaching impulses; group discussions; self-directed learning, implementation and evaluation of expert hearings; preparation of a scientific case study and its presentation by students.
Assessment methods and criteria
Presentation (25%) and home assignment (75%)
Prerequisites and co-requisites
None
Infos
Degree programme
Europäische Wirtschaftspolitik
Cycle
International Programme
ECTS Credits
5.00
Language of instruction
German
Curriculum
Full-Time
Academic year
2025
Semester
3 WS
Incoming
No
Learning outcome
After successful completion of the module, students can:
- present and distinguish the relevant principles, instruments, actors and strategies of current European and national environmental and sustainability policies,
- classify these principles, instruments and actors in current discourses on problems of sustainability as well as paradigms of economic action (e.g. common good economy and post-growth economy),
- evaluate relevant sustainability problems for selected sectors or companies in a structured way on the basis of sustainability criteria,
- apply concepts for the operationalisation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) in the context of non-financial corporate reporting (CSR, standards such as Global Reporting Initiative, Sustainable Finance, Science-based Targets and EU taxonomy for Green Finance) and examine their suitability,
- derive economic policy recommendations to strengthen sustainability as an element of securing Europe as a business location.
Course code
0899-23-01-VZ-DE-M3.4