Climate Change and Sustainability

Catalog description

At the nexus of science, society, and sustainability, this course is an in-depth exploration of the causes and consequences of modern global warming. Topics include stakeholder analysis, environmental justice, economics, politics, energy sources, adaptation and mitigation at local, national and global scales. In the past, humanity was transformed by the Agricultural, Industrial, and Technological Revolutions. We are currently undergoing an Energy Revolution with direct consequences on the climate crisis. Will it be in time to stabilize the rapidly changing hydrological and ecological Systems upon which Earth’s biodiversity depends?