Academic syllabuses on climate change and sustainability from Anthropology, Economics, Geography, Politics, Sociology, and Public Policy.
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Contributor: Michael Lerner Institution: The London School of Economics Level: Postgraduate Keywords: climate change mitigation; political economy; case studies
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
Contributor:Julia Corwin Institution:The London School of Economics Level: Undergraduate Keywords:challenges to sustainable development; global economy; sustainable development in practice
Contributor: Colin Jerolmack Institution: New York University Level: Undergraduate Keywords: uneven distribution of environmental problems; measuring and mobilising environmental justice; interdisciplinary readings
Contributor: Michael Springborn Institution: University of California, Davis Level: Undergraduate Keywords: policy design and assessment; cost-benefit analysis; critically challenging economics frameworks
Contributor: Jason Cons Institution: University of Texas Level: Undergraduate Keywords: ethnographic methods; local and global approach; environmental justice
Contributor:Tom Perreault Institution: Syracuse University Level: Undergraduate Keywords:US environmental justice movement; environmental justice, race and class; local and global approach
Contributor: L. Jen Shaffer Institution: University of Maryland Level: Undergraduate Keywords: social-ecological system; impacts of global climate change on communities; complex adaptive systems
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
Contributor: Emma McDonell Institution: Butler University Level: Undergraduate Keywords: culturally situated narratives about the environment; power structures and relations; nature/culture dualism
Contributor: L. Jen Shaffer Institution: University of Maryland Level: Undergraduate Keywords: interaction between humans and climate; contemporary, historic and prehistoric case studies; interdisciplinary skills
Contributor: Lawrence Susskind Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Level: Postgraduate Keywords: formal environmental analysis techniques; collaborative decision-making; public participation
