CAS Environmental and ecological transition policies

This CAS examines the ecological transition as a twofold process: a paradigm shift in environmental policy and the greening of policies governing the use of environmental resources. Using tools from public policy analysis and property-rights theory, it addresses key challenges and situates diagnostic approaches such as planetary boundaries, ecological footprint, the doughnut economy, and material flow analysis. The programme provides a structured overview of current workstreams and discusses impact-oriented instruments

This course is open to anyone holding a university degree or with professional experience judged to be equivalent.

Graduates strengthen their profile for function- and impact-oriented roles around the ecological transition, including:


Policy design and implementation leads for climate, resource and circular-economy programmes 
Strategy/programme management for the energy transition, sustainable mobility, land and urban development.
Corporate resource and climate management 
Impact & data analysis 
Regulatory/compliance functions 
Circular-economy project management 
Stakeholder and participation management 
Consulting on governance instruments, funding design and impact pathways.

Introduce participants to the tools necessary for environmental policy analysis and for other public policies involved in the ecological transition (energy, transport and land-use planning policies).
Critically assess the latest knowledge about the design, functioning and effects of the different public policies associated with sustainability and the ecological transition.
Provide an overview of the different contemporary debates that have developed within the context of the emerging framework supporting sustainability, and then, more recently, within the context of the ecological transition: sustainable resource management, the struggle against climate change, the energy transition, urban densification, the circular economy, sustainable mobility, et cetera.
Discuss avenues for reflection and the potential solutions resulting from contemporary debates in order to think about the nuts and bolts of the ecological transition in a realistic and transversal manner.

Students studying for the MAS in Public Administration (MPA).
Political leaders and administrative officials in the fields of environmental policy, nature conservation, land and biodiversity management, regional and urban planning, energy, transport and mobility, agriculture or economic development, etc.
Professionals working in any of these fields.
The representatives of political parties, umbrella and professional associations, interest groups, think tanks and NGOs working in these fields.
Researchers and PhD students.