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Environmental SciencesEnvironmental Governance – MEGInstitutionLocationCourse focusTarget groupCourse languageAlbert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg(Albert-Ludwig University, Freiburg)Freiburg, Germany’s solar city, is located at the foot of the Black Forestvery close to France and Switzerland. The town is surrounded byan impressive landscape, with snow-covered mountaintops in winterand Mediterranean-type vegetation in the nearby Rhine Valley. Freiburgis a traditional yet dynamic university town and one of the mostbeautiful and attractive cities in Germany. It has a population of about200,000 inhabitants.Sustainable development and accordingly sustainability in the manifoldrelationships between humans and the environment have becomeintegral rules of conduct in politics and society. This is also true in economics,where for many companies a commitment to the principles ofsustainability has become a central strategic competitive advantage.One of the major challenges to the implementation of the overall conceptof sustainable development concerns effective governance processesbetween various stakeholders regarding the wise use of environmentalresources within companies, administrations, organisations,and society at large.The M.Sc. Programme ‘Environmental Governance’ (MEG) addressesthis special need. Unique worldwide, its focus is on facilitatingthe institutionalisation of context-effective environmental governancearrangements that combine the regulation of market, state and civilsociety for sustainable development.The study programme comprises:• The development of a sound knowledge base on the most pressingenvironmental issues facing the planet and their underlying socialcauses,• The comparative discussion of different analytical frameworks fromsocial, economic and political science perspectives,• The provision of methodological knowledge and skills for the context-sensitivedesign and management of the environmental governanceprocess.The programme does not limit itself to a special regional context butfocuses on environmental governance processes in a representative,worldwide perspective from local to international level.of sustainable development. ‘Sustainability designers’ possessinggrand, innovative ideas about environmental governance arrangementstranscending the traditional functional, structural and territorialboundaries. ‘Sustainability managers’ embracing and understandingtext-sensitivemanner.English91