CLIMATE CHANGE GOVERNANCE

ENVIRST 215

An introduction to the dynamic and emerging transdisciplinary field of sustainability. A broad survey of the global sustainability science challenges and their potential solutions using an integrated social-environmental systems approach. Applies a sustainability and systems thinking lens to various topics, such as complexity, resilience, ecological literacy, global climate change, economics, food systems, energy, sustainable development, and social equity. Facilitates the exploration of complex interrelationships among contemporary environmental, social, and economic problems and the solutions to support more sustainable systems. Focuses on the skills, knowledge, and attitudes to implement sustainable practices and to enact sustainable development through sustainability science and education.

ENVIRST 417

Analyze the concept of sustainability through current trends, including energy, air and water resources, agriculture, environmental measurement and analysis, modeling, remote sensing, Geographic Information Systems, the built environment, transportation, ecology, conservation and global climate change.

ENVIRST/POLISCI/PUBAFFR 866

In-depth examination of the political and policy challenges posed by global environmental degradation. Analysis of international institutions for managing the global environment.

ENVIRST/GEOG 534

Covers real-world questions of how the environment is managed and governed through state policy, economics, and social institutions. Includes strategies within and outside of the formal institutions of government, and extends the discussion to the commodification of nature and the use of science to understand and govern the environment. Also includes case studies of environmental governance in water, carbon, species, and urban sustainability.

EDPOL 320

Provides an overview of diverse theories and models of human-earth relations, and the causes and consequences of climate and environmental crisis. Centering a global ecological justice lens, develops a critical approach to examining how different people around the world learn about and experience the climate crisis. Provides a range of tools to use in responding to the climate crisis, including learning about and engaging with Teejop and Traditional Ecological Knowledge frameworks, exploring how increased diversity can sustain human survival, and examining the concept of sustainability.