UCL - Actors and territories: integrated approaches

[DVLP2335]

[30h] 5 credits

Teacher(s): Pierre Defourny, Isabel Yépez Del Castillo

Language: French

Level: Second

Aims
Main themes
Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

Aims

Enable students to (i) analyse the diversity of actors and logics of action in development and/or environment practice and politics, (ii) see the academic relevance of an interdisciplinary approach that integrates social and natural science and (iii) see the need to articulate in a systemic perspective local and global areas.

Main themes

- Theories of the action logics and the actors' logics.
- Peculiarity of the development and environmental actors (individuals to international organisations, in-cluded gender and North-South relationships)
- Systemic, interdisciplinary and intersectoral approaches in this field.
- Analysis of different case studies.

Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

The final evaluation consists of two parts : the active participation to the course (i.e. at-tendance, tasks and roles taken as well as the documents prepared) and an individual contribution at the end of the course.

The course will be based on a set of readings that will be discussed in the course as well as the presentation of research and field experience by professors, students and guests.