ENSb1282 Politics, Ideology and Environment

Faculty of Social Studies
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Vojtěch Pelikán, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Ing. Dominika Tóthová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Josef Patočka (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Vojtěch Pelikán, Ph.D.
Department of Environmental Studies – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: Mgr. Kateřina Hendrychová
Supplier department: Department of Environmental Studies – Faculty of Social Studies
Prerequisites
! ENS282 Politics, Ideology and Environ &&!NOW( ENS282 Politics, Ideology and Environ )&&TYP_STUDIA(B)
The presumption for the participation in the course is the acknowledgement with basic terminology of environmental studies and general knowledge of political structure in the Czech Republic.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
Course provides to the students basic orientation in political ideologies and in their importance for the environmental issues. Participants will obtain general overview about environmental dimension of the Czech party system and they will adopt basic conceptual framework to theoretically discuss and analyze the political discourse in both historical and global context.
Learning outcomes
Course participants will be able to:
- analyze ideological presuppositions of environmental policies
- distinguish between main environmentally-relevant ideological streams
- describe histroy of environmentally-focused political efforts
- orient themselves in a politics of "green parties"
- define terms commonly used in environmental politics
- describe legislatory structure of environmental politics and policy
- identify instruments of environmental policy
Syllabus
  • 1) Ideology, power, polity and politics
  • 2) Main political ideologies form environmental perspective (liberalism, conservatism, socialism, anarchism)
  • 3) Eco-dictatorship, ecofascism
  • 4) Evolution of the czech ecological politics
  • 5) Czech party system from environmental perspective
  • 6) European and global environmental politics
Literature
    recommended literature
  • ROMM, Joseph. Climate Change: What Everyone Needs to Know. Oxford University Press, 2018. ISBN 978-0-19-086611-2. info
  • DRYZEK, John S. The politics of the earth : environmental discourses. 3rd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013, xv, 270. ISBN 9780199696000. info
  • CARTER, Neil. The politics of the environment : ideas, activism, policy. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007, xxi, 410. ISBN 9780521687454. info
  • DOBSON, Andrew. Green political thought. 3rd ed. London: Routledge, 2000, xii, 230. ISBN 0415222044. info
Teaching methods
lectures, class disicussion, reading
Assessment methods
Active attendance on seminars
Essay
Final test
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2020, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2025, recent)
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