Course: Politics of Transition

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Course title Politics of Transition
Course code MRS/GUPU
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminar
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 5
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory, Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Adamovská Nikola
  • Opršal Zdeněk, doc. Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
unspecified

Learning activities and teaching methods
Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook), Group work
Learning outcomes
Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
Oral exam, Seminar Work

Recommended literature
  • Strategie přizpůsobení se změně klimatu v podmínkách ČR.
  • Vnitrostátní plán České republiky v oblasti energetiky a klimatu.
  • Amenta, E., Caren, N., Chiarello, E., & Su, Y. (2010). The political consequences of social movements.
  • Avelino, F. Power in sustainability transitions: Analysing power and (dis) empowerment in transformative change towards sustainability.
  • Bernstein, S., Hoffmann, M. (2019). Climate politics, metaphors and the fractal carbon trap.
  • Della Porta, D., Parks, L. (2014). Framing Processes in the Climate Movement: From climate change to climate justice 1. In Routledge handbook of the climate change movement (pp. 19-30).
  • Dimitrov, R. S. (2016). The Paris Agreement on climate change: Behind closed doors.
  • Dupont, C. et al. (2024). Three decades of EU climate policy: Racing toward climate neutrality?.
  • Geels, F. W. (2014). Regime resistance against low-carbon transitions: introducing politics and power into the multi-level perspective.
  • Hale, T. (2020). Catalytic cooperation.
  • Hale, T. (2016). The Paris Agreement and nonstate climate action.
  • Hölscher, K., Wittmayer, J. M., & Loorbach, D. (2018). Transition versus transformation: What?s the difference?.
  • Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. (2022). Accelerating the transition in the con-text of sustainable development. In Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change. Contribution of Working Group III to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (pp. 171?1766).
  • Jordan, A., Matt, E. (2014). Designing policies that intentionally stick: Policy feedback in a changing climate.
  • Kalfagianni, A., Young, O. R. (2022). The politics of multilateral environmental agreements lessons from 20 years of INEA.
  • Keohane, R. O., Victor, D. G. (2011). The regime complex for climate change.
  • Kern, K. (2019). Cities as leaders in EU multilevel climate governance: embedded upscaling of local experiments in Europe.
  • Köhler, J. et al. (2019). An agenda for sustainability transitions research: State of the art and future directions.
  • Loorbach, D., Frantzeskaki, N., & Avelino, F. (2017). Sustainability transitions research: transforming science and practice for societal change.
  • Meadowcroft, J. (2009). What about the politics? Sustainable development, transition management, and long term energy transitions.
  • Meckling, J., Kelsey, N., Biber, E., & Zysman, J. (2015). Winning coalitions for climate policy.
  • Moldan, B. (2020). Životní prostředí v globální perspektivě. Univerzita Karlova.
  • Newell, P., Mulvaney, D. (2013). The political economy of the ?just transition.
  • O'Brien, K. (2013). Global environmental change III: Closing the gap between knowledge and action.
  • Ostrom, E. (2017). Polycentric systems for coping with collective action and global environmental change.
  • Rogge, K. S., Reichardt, K. (2016). Policy mixes for sustainability transitions: An extended concept and framework for analysis.
  • Scoones, I., et al. (2020). Transformations to sustainability: combining structural, systemic and enabling approaches.
  • Turnheim, B., Asquith, M., & Geels, F. W. (2020). Making sustainability transitions research policy-relevant: Challenges at the science-policy interface.
  • Von der Leyen, U. (2019). Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Euro-pean Council, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions: The European Green Deal.


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Science Study plan (Version): Global Sustainable Development - specialization in International Development (2026) Category: Geography courses - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Science Study plan (Version): Global Sustainable Development - specialization in Transition to Sustainability (2026) Category: Geography courses 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Winter