Italy Abroad
February 5 - April 30, 2009
Course description
This course will provide an introduction to the EU and its policy on environmental protection and natural resources. It will be divided into three parts. The first one will aim to clarify the institutional framework of environmental policy in the EU, starting with a historical approach to the EU integration, and deepening into how the Community institutions have developed competences in the environmental field. The second part will present, sector by sector, the main EU fields of environmental policy. It will be thus devoted to the substantive content of the EU environmental policy. The third part will focus on some cross-cutting and important procedural issues that affect all the previous substantive fields. This last part will also underline how non strictly ‘environmental’ issues have an environment dimension nonetheless, such as the energy, the agriculture or the development cooperation policies.
Course objectives
The objective of the course is three-fold. First, it aims at familiarising US students with the structure and functioning of the EU, enabling them to understand the institutional framework in which EU environmental policy has developed. Second, it aims at presenting the key areas of EU environmental policies relevant for US students from a comparative perspective. Third, it aims at highlighting the role of the EU as an international actor and some of the ongoing EU-US debates on certain environment and natural resources policies in other international fora, for example the World Trade Organisation.
Instructors
Hayley Chouinard
203D Hulbert Hall
chouinard@wsu.edu
Phil Wandschneider
121D Hulbert Hall
pwandschneider@wsu.edu
Jon Yoder
203G Hulbert Hall
yoder@wsu.edu
Christine Horne
Wilson 248
chorne@wsu.edu
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