PLAN 351 Green Cities
Submitted by admin on Thu, 11/14/2024 - 13:31The key social and technological challenges, contradictions, and opportunities in planning for ecologically sound urbanization.
PHYS 333 Energy and Climate
Submitted by admin on Thu, 11/14/2024 - 13:31The fundamental physics behind global issues of energy use and climate change.
PHIL 332 Environmental Ethics
Submitted by admin on Thu, 11/14/2024 - 13:31Moral problems arising in the context of human relationships to nature and to non-human living things, considered in terms of both general moral theory and policy formation. Topics include moral standing, animal rights, obligations to future generations, pollution, hazardous materials, the depletion of natural resources and the treatment of non-human living things. Credit will be granted for only one of PHIL 332 or PHIL 435.
NURS 290 Health Impacts of Climate Change
Submitted by admin on Thu, 11/14/2024 - 13:31Human health impacts of the current and projected environmental crisis; study of key concepts and ideas to prepare for the future to promote wellbeing of individuals, communities and populations.
MINE 455 Mine Water Management
Submitted by admin on Thu, 11/14/2024 - 13:31Mine water management covering integrated water resource management, water balances, sources, water use optimization, water quality and treatment and long term stewardship.
MECH 411 Air Pollution, Technology and Society
Submitted by admin on Thu, 11/14/2024 - 13:31Causes and effects of air pollution in the context of technology and society. Topics include: impact of air pollutants on air quality and climate, atmospheric science, public policy, collective action, environmental justice, science communication, economic externalities, and ethical engineering design.
LAW 387B Environmental Law
Submitted by admin on Thu, 11/14/2024 - 13:31A foundation course dealing with the regulatory and policy framework for the protection of the environment in Canada, such as pollution control and biodiversity conservation.
HIST 106 Global Environmental History
Submitted by admin on Thu, 11/14/2024 - 13:31The impact humans have had on the environment, and the ways in which the physical environment has shaped human history: climate, agriculture, energy use, and urbanization.
GEOS 407 Vegetation Dynamics: Disturbance, Climate and Human Impacts
Submitted by admin on Thu, 11/14/2024 - 13:31Investigation of vegetation dynamics integrating theory and research to address contemporary issues of global environmental change. Students will conduct fieldwork and learn to analyze data and interpret results.
GEOS 401 Urban Meteorology
Submitted by admin on Thu, 11/14/2024 - 13:31The impact of urbanization upon atmospheric processes and climates. The energy and water balances of cities. Meteorological effects (urban heat island, precipitation modification, etc.) and their significance. Models of the urban atmosphere.