Strategic Analysis of Environmental Management

Strategic Environmental Management Analysis (SEMA) is a theoretical framework that provides a basis for analyzing a management situation based on a clearly expressed environmental concern. It sheds light on the exercise of environmental responsibility in relation to the exercise of other collective responsibilities, within the context of a pluralistic debate.  By identifying the basic structures of environmental management situations, particularly in international contexts, it provides criteria that explain the difficulties faced by public environmental policies in emerging in relation to other areas of public action—particularly development policies – and, on the other hand, identify the scope for promoting change towards greater responsibility for environmental issues. The module is based on two key elements: (1) The presentation of various research-intervention projects using this analytical framework to explain the implementation of the ASGE's working registers, (2) A supervised project combining critical analysis of environmental project documents with the development of an alternative research-intervention study proposal using the ASGE framework, which is presented and discussed collectively at the end of the module.

Know how to apply strategic environmental management analysis in the context of interventions in Europe and in developing countries. Students will therefore be able to diagnose an environmental management project, compare different models, approaches, and doctrines of environmental management implemented in the field, and critically analyze them. They will be able to structure information from an environmental project to produce a strategic analysis focused on ecological performance. In particular, they will be able to specify the normative benchmark to be achieved, analyze the gap between this objective and the current situation, and compare the specific efforts undertaken with the resistance that sectoral policies oppose to these efforts. Finally, on this basis, they will be able to propose an alternative intervention or research-intervention project using the framework of strategic environmental management analysis.

Continuous assessment: 100%