This course covers the necessary fundamentals for the use of statistics to understand policy. Theoretically the course will provide a survey of foundational concepts and techniques statistics and mathematics. The applied part of the course will focus on implementing these techniques in R, as well as the practical skills required to develop their own data-based research projects.

This course deals with how and why international cooperation in environmental politics emerges, andunder what circumstances such cooperation is effective and efficient. Based on theories ofinternational political economy and theories of government regulation various examples ofinternational environmental politics are discussed: the management of international water resources