The aim of the course is to give a good knowledge base in the subject of sustainable production and consumption issues, both from the consumer as from the producer perspective. It will equip students with a set of examples of successful ideas and solutions in this area. They will be able to
After more than a half century of development the European Union (EU) has become a significant political system, embracing nearly half a billion people and playing an influential role in the world. But the last few years have been difficult and full of challenges for the Union. This course
A quick glance at the world's developing countries reveals striking differences in the levels of development, and a corresponding variation in the state's contribution to the process of development - ranging from so called predatory states like Mugabe's Zimbabwe, plundering and preying on their own
Almere is a New Town created 30 years ago; it has plans to double its size within the next twenty years. A large part of this extension will be planned by using experimental methods, aiming to create a city that is just as much shaped by its inhabitants as by its planners. Almere calls this %B4The
This course will explore how the "new Berlin" relates to the history of the "old Berlin" by examining the complex interconnections between politics, history, personal memory, public remembrance, the commemoration of the past and the celebration of the present. Each week of the
The Midsummer Dream School is a training and research environment aimed at students, professional practitioners and critics interested in thinking and working artistically through performative devices and methodological reflections. The Summer School 2011 will concentrate on the relationship
GESA 2011 will focus on human dimensions of global environmental change, ranging from adaptive community management to planetary processes. It will span local to global scales in exploring the most critical contemporary environmental issues from the perspective of biocultural diversity studies,
The course will introduce the basics of the European Union and describe and explain the processes of widening and deepening of this unique political entity. This will cover an overview of European Union history, its evolution in economic and political terms as well as of its institutional structure
Many of the certainties of post-World War II international relations are vanishing or altering beyond recognition. This course will introduce students to the institutions, issues, and ideas that have shaped international relations since the end of World War II. We start by looking at the world in
A total of 244 armed conflicts have been recorded since the end of the Second World War. Of these, 131 conflicts have been active in the post-Cold War period. These facts suggest one clear conclusion: armed conflict remains to be a commonplace in contemporary world. However, the most striking fact
