Political Science - Environmental Governance and Behavior University of Gothenburg

Overview

Political Science - Environmental Governance and Behavior from University of Gothenburg  combines cutting-edge research on the sustainable use of natural resources from two academic disciplines: political science and psychology. 

Key Facts

• Along with a thorough emphasis on scientific methods, this education establishes a solid preparatory platform for the new generation of ‘green professionals’, in politics, public administration, private sector or civil society.
• Do you want to explore the psychological and political obstacles and opportunities to our sustainable future? This programme combines the focus on people’s environmental attitudes and beliefs within psychology with the focus on institutions and policy instruments within political science to explore environmentally friendly possibilities. Courses address real environmental problems, such as water management, the oceans, land use, biodiversity, and various airborne problems, including climate change, with emphasis on their possible solutions. The programme’s take-off is a core-course in political science, it proceeds with scientific method, and advances through in-depth courses on social scientific conceptualizations of the environment, environmental politics and institutions, environmental psychology and political psychology. The master’s thesis is the completing educational step.