随着永续发展与环境保护的必要性日趋受到重视，对所有相关领域的学生而言，环境议题与协商能力的教育日益重要。本课程将介绍目前国际上关注的环境议题，并提供相关的延伸阅读。

With the growing necessity for sustainability and environmental protection, education on the negotiations and topics surrounding the environment become important for students in all fields. This class takes a look at the international issues that come into play regarding the environment, and has an extensive reading list covering those topics.

本课程将探讨阻碍永续发展的原因，诸如：管理共有资源上的困难、跨国境污染控制、社会经济发展所需与环境资源保护之间的取舍、全球环保标准的统一。而上述问题的核心，必须藉由国际或多国协商来加以讨论。本课程将特别着重于协商过程中代表性与表决所产生的问题、各议题的连结、科学与政治的平衡、协商过程的监督与加强。本课程亦会以实际条约制定时的协商来检视上述几个议题，特别是全球持续为履行气候变迁公约所作的努力。本课程以专题讨论的方式进行，每个学生需针对作业范围内的国际环境协商案例进行个别分析报告。

The class will explore the obstacles to achieving sustainability; in particular, the difficulties of managing common resources, achieving transboundary pollution control, making tradeoffs between economic and social development needs and environmental resource protection, and harmonizing environmental protection standards. At their core, these problems must be addressed through international or multi-lateral negotiations. We will focus especially on problems of representation and voting, issue linkage, balancing science and politics, and monitoring and enforcement in negotiations of these kinds. We will also examine these issues in light of actual treaty negotiations especially the on-going efforts to implement the Climate Change Convention. The class will operate as a research seminar. Each student will be expected to prepare and present an analysis of a specific international environmental negotiation which is heavily prescriptive.