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2025 Syllabuses
Contributor: Michael Lerner
Institution: The London School of Economics
Level: Postgraduate
Keywords: climate change mitigation; political economy; case studies
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2024 Syllabuses
Contributor: Robert N. Stavins
Institution: Harvard University
Level: Undergraduate and Postgraduate
Keywords: tools for assessing climate policy; international policy agreements; regional, national, sub-national climate policy
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Contributor: Julia Corwin
Institution: The London School of Economics
Level: Undergraduate
Keywords: challenges to sustainable development; global economy; sustainable development in practice
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2023 Syllabuses
Contributor: Christine Walley
Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Level: Postgraduate
Keywords: natural gas exploration; toxic exposures; interspecies relations
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Contributor: Colin Jerolmack
Institution: New York University
Level: Undergraduate
Keywords: uneven distribution of environmental problems; measuring and mobilising environmental justice; interdisciplinary readings
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Contributor: Michael Springborn
Institution: University of California, Davis
Level: Undergraduate
Keywords: policy design and assessment; cost-benefit analysis; critically challenging economics frameworks
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2022 Syllabuses
Contributor: Jason Cons
Institution: University of Texas
Level: Undergraduate
Keywords: ethnographic methods; local and global approach; environmental justice
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Contributor: Tom Perreault
Institution: Syracuse University
Level: Undergraduate
Keywords: US environmental justice movement; environmental justice, race and class; local and global approach
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Contributor: Mark Henderson
Institution: Northeastern University
Level: Undergraduate
Keywords: interdisciplinary tools and analysis; creative coursework; environmental impact assessment
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Contributor: L. Jen Shaffer
Institution: University of Maryland
Level: Undergraduate
Keywords: social-ecological system; impacts of global climate change on communities; complex adaptive systems
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2020 Syllabuses
Contributor: Christina A. Boyes
Institution: University of Colorado, Boulder
Level: Undergraduate
Keywords: policy actor analyses; Sustainable Development Goals; trade-offs and externalities of environmental policies
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2019 Syllabuses
Contributor: Emma McDonell
Institution: Butler University
Level: Undergraduate
Keywords: culturally situated narratives about the environment; power structures and relations; nature/culture dualism
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2017 Syllabuses
2016 Syllabuses
Contributor: L. Jen Shaffer
Institution: University of Maryland
Level: Undergraduate
Keywords: interaction between humans and climate; contemporary, historic and prehistoric case studies; interdisciplinary skills
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Contributor: Lawrence Susskind
Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Level: Postgraduate
Keywords: formal environmental analysis techniques; collaborative decision-making; public participation
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