This module examines the ways in which uses of the natural environment are regulated, from policy and law to market-based approaches, through the concept of governance. Based around governance the module considers how relationships between capitalist societies and the natural resources and environments on which they depend are currently organized (eg. through policies, law/regulation, discourses of sustainability and environmental modernization and so on), and what alternatives might be considered. Themes to be explored include: theories of environmental governance; environmental policy – local, regional, national, global case studies; environment and capitalism; environment and democracy; trading in the environment; global environmental governance; and seminars and key texts in environmental governance.