ESP 810: Understanding Trust in the Environmental Governance Context
ESP 810: Understanding Trust in the Environmental Governance Context
Offered: Fall (odd year)
Wednesday 3:00 p.m. - 5:50 p.m.
273 Giltner Hall
Dr. Joe Hamm (jhamm@msu.edu)
From global climate change to local land use, governance relationships sit at the root of identifying and responding to virtually all of the major environmental problems in today’s world. Students in this course will use the state of the science of trust as a lens for thinking through a variety of environmental governance challenges. The overarching questions of this seminar are two:
1. What is the role of relationships in effective environmental governance?
2. What does the state of the science of trust offer to scholars and practitioners trying to improve the governance of a given environmental problem?
Additionally, because of their direct relevance to the course materials, students in this course will gain a strong working knowledge of foundational social science issues in theoretical development, measurement, and statistics and experience in academic grant writing.