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Dec 30, 2024
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ES 4630 - Climate Change Mitigation, Adaptation and Resilience Policy
This course introduces students to the study of climate policy and planning. Students examine the range of mitigation, adaptation and resilience approaches for managing greenhouse gas emissions and the impacts of climate change to improve human and environmental security. Students gain an understanding of the implications of climate change science for public policy making and hands-on experience in using climate information for preparing a climate change plan. Students explore a basic overview of public policy theory, discuss various policy options for mitigation and adaptation policy, and gain the skills necessary for incorporating climate into a diverse area of public policy issues. Students are presented with the general theory, analytic frameworks, and specific techniques necessary to analyze climate change policy alternatives within a larger human security framework. The skills learned in this class are applicable to a variety of levels of government planning (local, state and national) as well as across the private, nonprofit and public sectors.
Requisites: ES 3620
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes: - Students will be able to assess the potential consequences of climate change.
- Students will be able to describe current approaches to climate change policy and planning.
- Students will be able to assess the potential tradeoffs between different proposed policy options.
- Students will be able to apply concepts to an applied climate change policy project.
- Students will be able to describe the environmental, social, and economic dimensions of sustainability and identify major sustainability challenges.
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