ENVR 201 Climate Action Lab 1
Submitted by admin on Thu, 11/14/2024 - 13:31Community-engaged climate action projects; skill building for climate action.
ENST 312 Climate Change: Science and Society
Submitted by admin on Thu, 11/14/2024 - 13:31Climates over the geological, historical and instrument periods. Theories of climatic change. Monitoring and modelling the climate system. Impacts of change on environmental and socio-economic systems.
ECON 472 Economics of Renewable Resources
Submitted by admin on Thu, 11/14/2024 - 13:31Application of economic analysis to the management of renewable resources. Special attention is given to criteria for the optimal use of depleting resources such as forests and water. Other topics include public policy with regard to environmental quality, conservation, and outdoor recreation.
ECON 371 Economics of the Environment
Submitted by admin on Thu, 11/14/2024 - 13:31Economic analysis applied to various environmental issues, including sustainable development, quality of life, and environmental impacts of specific industrial and consumption activities. The design and implementation of government policies. Global environmental effects of human economic activity.
CONS 310 Ecology in a Changing Climate
Submitted by admin on Thu, 11/14/2024 - 13:31Impact of climate change on ecological systems. Builds framework for understanding past and future changes following fundamental organizing units of ecology - individuals, populations, species, communities, and ecosystems.
CONS 302 Issues in Genomics and the Environment
Submitted by admin on Thu, 11/14/2024 - 13:31Introductory genomics in the context of genetics and epigenetics; current and topical issues, including genetic determinism, environmental DNA, revival of extinct species, and applications of genomics to improve our life and environment including adaptation to climate change.
CONS 210 Visualizing Climate Change
Submitted by admin on Thu, 11/14/2024 - 13:31Introduction to climate change through the lens of local landscapes and future scenarios, using visual media to communicate the underlying science & psychology, and engage communities in local climate change solutions.
COMM 314 – Strategies for Responsible Business
Submitted by admin on Thu, 11/14/2024 - 13:31Tools to apply sustainable and responsible decision making through individual, organizational, and structural lenses. Topics include diversity and group think, the circular economy, and climate change adaptation.
CIVL 250 Engineering and Sustainable Development
Submitted by admin on Thu, 11/14/2024 - 13:31Implications of a finite biosphere and the complexities inherent in environmental decision-making. Credit will only be granted for only one of CIVL 200 or CIVL 250.
CHEM 301 Aqueous Environmental Chemistry
Submitted by admin on Thu, 11/14/2024 - 13:31Properties of natural waters, including gas and solid equilibria, pH, redox, complexation analysis, corrosion treatment, ion exchange, colloids and microbial transformations.