Certificate of Achievement

Peter O'Brien

has completed the following course:

Environmental Management: A Bottom-Up Approach to Policy Implementation

Adam Smith Center

This course highlights the unique bottom-up approaches to environmental policy by drawing on insights from the Nobel Prize-winning economist, Elinor Ostrom. The course also explores how public entrepreneurship, experimentation and self-governance are effective policy environmental principles.

4 weeks, 3 hours per week

Dr. Bryan Cheang

Director of Adam Smith Centre

Adam Smith Center

86%
overall score

Transcript

Learning outcomes

  • Investigate the intellectual paradigm pioneered by Elinor Ostrom
  • Summarise the importance of public policy principles such as polycentricity, local self-governance and experimentation
  • Explain how bottom-up solutions were used to improve environmental outcomes
  • Explore creative ideas from the Ostromian toolkit to tackle climate change

Syllabus

  • Key public policy principles of the Bloomington School of Political Economy
  • The intellectual legacy of Elinor Ostrom, Nobel Laureate
  • An understanding of choice, competition, and diversity in policy design
  • Case studies of environmental management of common-pool resources
  • Policy ideas for a bottom-up approach to climate change policy

Issued on 18th April 2023

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Environmental Management: A Bottom-Up Approach to Policy Implementation

Adam Smith Center