Action to address environmental problems – also called environmental governance – nowadays comes from nation states and a plethora of other actors. In this course, you will learn what environmental governance is and how some of the actors that provide for it operate. Specifically, you will learn to understand how environmental governance and policy is developed, implemented, assessed and contested at multiple levels, from domestic environmental policies to international treaties and transnational governance arrangements. You will familiarize yourself with the various modes of governance, from public to private, and the different governance instruments, from command and control to information-sharing and networking. In more detail, the six weeks of the course are thematically divided to address (a) the emergence and basic concepts of environmental policy and governance; (b) the role of public policy interstate actors in environmental policy and governance; (c) the role of market-based approaches in environmental policy and governance; (d) the role of networked governance (with a focus on non-state actors).