Session 1 Introduction to the Course

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Instructor:

L. Venkatachalam

ProfessorMadras Institute of Development Studies (MIDS)Chennai -600 020

E-mail:[email protected]://www.mids.ac.in/venkat.htm
mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]


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Objectives of the Course

The specific objectives of this course are to

acquaint the students with various

environmental issues using an interdisciplinaryapproach, and to enable the students, who are

on the threshold of becoming active

participants in society as citizens, decision-

makers and leaders, to develop a framework toanalyze the environmental issues and to find

out appropriate policy measures.


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Course outline

Module A (Sessions 1 & 2)

Introduction to Environmental

Management Sustainable Development

A critique of sustainable development (SD) concept of

SD, different forms of capital, role of natural capital in

achieving SD,

Local, regional & trans-boundary water issues and howthese issues affect SD in India


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Module B (Sessions 3 to 9)Scope of market mechanism in environmental management;Collective action & property rights for sustainable development

Scope of market mechanism in environmentalmanagement

Complete property rights Institutions and transaction costs (government, markets and

NGOs such as, legal system)

Collective action & property rights for sustainabledevelopment

Various types of property regimes private, state, common & openaccess

Collective action and social capital

Elinor Ostromswork on commons

Common property, local livelihoods & land acquisition


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Module B (Sessions 3 to 9)Scope of market mechanism in environmental management;

Collective action & property rights for sustainable development

Market failures and environmental problems, andinternalization of environmental externalities Reasons for market failures

Public goods, externalities

Correcting market failures

Command and control

Market-based instruments

Climate change: Kyoto Protocol Role of judiciary

A case study of coffee sector in the context of relationship betweeninternational trade & environment


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Module C (Sessions 10 to 16)Environmental issues and policy measures

Session 10: Case study on local

environmental governance Institutions, Property Rights, Policy failures, Sustainable

Development vs. Equity, Social Capital, Challenges in

implementing grass roots interventions

Sessions 1116: Presentation & discussion

of term papers and book reviews


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Evaluation Class Participation 10%

Mid-term 20%

Final Examination

40% Answer No more than the suggested page limit in the question

paper

Term Paper 30%


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Term paper presentationA group of five/ six students

Analyze local / regional / national /

international environmental issues

(remedial policies/interventions) &

opportunities (i.e., new businessopportunities)

Evaluation on the basis of application of

theoretical concepts/ analytical frameworks

discussed in Session 1 to Session 10.


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Evaluation of term paper

Presentation and discussion 35 minutes for each group

15 to 20 minutes for presentation

15 minutes for discussion

Presentation by ALL the students in a group,

and participation by ALL the students in the

class

(Post mid-term, March 9th onwards)


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Evaluation of term paper

Presentation

15 marks Individual effort 10 marks

Overall group presentation 5 marks

Report 15 marks ORIGINAL PIECE OF WORK

Write the source of literature referred to asfootnotes/endnotes

Report size Maximum 2,500 words

Structure the report into sections

References Kumar, I., Guri, S., Ladia, M., Richa, & Verma, A. (2013) (PGP16 Students) Live project on coastal

management of Kozhikode. The Winner of WIPRO Earthian Award 2013. (Note based onEnvironmental Management Term Paper).

Sahasranamam, S., Dasgupta, S., Asati, A., Singh, R., & Debnath, A. (PGP16 Students) (2013)Powering villages with renewable energy co-ops. Business Line November 25, 2013. (An articlebased on Term Paper) (PPTs of presentation available in the Black Board)

PPTs of two groups from PGP16

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