隨著永續發展與環境保護的必要性日趨受到重視，對所有相關領域的學生而言，環境議題與協商能力的教育日益重要。本課程將介紹目前國際上關注的環境議題，並提供相關的延伸閱讀。

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.

本課程將探討阻礙永續發展的原因，諸如：管理共有資源上的困難、跨國境污染控制、社會經濟發展所需與環境資源保護之間的取捨、全球環保標準的統一。而上述問題的核心，必須藉由國際或多國協商來加以討論。本課程將特別著重於協商過程中代表性與表決所產生的問題、各議題的連結、科學與政治的平衡、協商過程的監督與加強。本課程亦會以實際條約制定時的協商來檢視上述幾個議題，特別是全球持續為履行氣候變遷公約所作的努力。本課程以專題討論的方式進行，每個學生需針對作業範圍內的國際環境協商案例進行個別分析報告。

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.