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After finalising the course, the student can:
- Describe and critically reflect on methods for analysing, evaluating and designing policies;
- Apply these methods in the context of concrete writing assignments;
- Draft a paper that proposes a policy design, based on a thorough analysis and evaluation of existing policies.
Please note: the information in the course manual is binding.
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To deal with pressing (environmental) issues, appropriate action should be taken by governmental, private and civil society actors. But when is an action ‘appropriate’? How can we make sure that (environmental) policies are effective, but at the same time also efficient and legitimate? In this course you will develop skills needed to address these questions. First, you will learn how to make a thorough analysis of environmental policies: a systematic assessment of what a policy looks like and how it works. Second, you will learn how to evaluate policies, that is, giving a motivated judgement of how ‘good’ or ‘bad’ a policy is according to certain criteria. Third, you will learn how the lessons from an analysis and evaluation can be used to design policies, that is, to propose improvements. You will read sources that introduce you into various methods for policy analysis, evaluation and design. You will also make three writing assignments: one for policy analysis, one for evaluation, and one with a major focus on design. The topics of these assignments include the landing obligation in EU fisheries policy, the EU Birds and Habitats Directive (Natura 2000), and flood risk governance in Poland. Sources to be used in the writing assignments include literature, as well as films and video interviews in which practitioners and policy-makers give their views on policies. All sources are made available through Blackboard. Lectures are meant to explain and illustrate the methods to be used in the assignments. Tutorials will help you understand the literature and help you in writing the assignments.
This course includes an Honours component.
This course is the entry requirement for:
- Bachelor’s thesis GSS, track GST (GEO3-2422)
- Sustainable Land Use (GEO3-2121) (students must have participated fully in Policy Evaluation & Design to be admitted to Sustainable Land Use)
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