Globalization

Environmental Policy and Globalization

This activity will enable you to:

• Analyze significant economic questions according to the standards of the economics discipline including in broad subfields of economics, such as applied microeconomics, global and macroeconomics, econometrics, or finance.
• Identify social arrangements interpreted as unjust and articulate the implications for social policy and action.

Before beginning the discussion, please read the following:

• Lechner and Boli (Eds.), (2015). The Globalization Reader (5th ed.):
  • Introduction to Part XI
  • Chapter 69: Speech of the IPCC Chairman, Rajendra K. Pachauri, January 23, 2008
• Bell, M. (2009). An Invitation to Environmental Sociology:
  • Chapter 1: Environmental Problems and Society (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. [PDF, File Size 1.6 MB]
• View the following video:
  • Climate Change: Our Responsibility (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. [Video, 25:03 min]

Based on these readings and videos, answer the following questions:

• Does the 2007 IPCC report and Chairman Pachauri’s speech mean that climate change has been addressed in a meaningful way?
• In your considered assessment, is collective action against the causes of climate change successful? If not, why not?