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2024 Syllabuses

Economics - Economics of Climate Change and Environmental Policy

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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Geography - Sustainable Development

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

Anthropology - Environmental Conflict 

Contributor: Christine Walley
Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Level: Postgraduate
Keywords: natural gas exploration; toxic exposures; interspecies relations

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Sociology - Environmental Justice and Inequality

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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Public Policy - Environmental Policy Evaluation

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

Anthropology - Environmental Anthropology

Contributor: Jason Cons
Institution: University of Texas
Level: Undergraduate
Keywords: ethnographic methods; local and global approach; environmental justice

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Geography - Geographies of Environmental Justice

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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Politics - The Politics and Policy of Climate Change and Sustainability 

Contributor: Michael Lerner
Institution: The London School of Economics
Level: Postgraduate
Keywords: comparative research designs; political economy; natural resource governance

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Public Policy - Environmental Policy Analysis

Contributor: Mark Henderson
Institution: Northeastern University
Level: Undergraduate
Keywords: interdisciplinary tools and analysis; creative coursework; environmental impact assessment

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Anthropology - Anthropology & Climate Change

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

Public Policy - Introduction to Environmental Policy 

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

Anthropology - Anthropology of the Environment

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

Anthropology - An Anthropocene Primer

Contributor: Jason M. Kelly
Institution: IUPUI
Level: Undergraduate
Keywords: interactive website; justice and responsability; policy outcomes

 

2016 Syllabuses

Anthropology - Anthropology & Climate Change

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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Environmental Policy - Introduction To Environmental Policy And Planning

Contributor: Lawrence Susskind
Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Level: Postgraduate
Keywords: formal environmental analysis techniques; collaborative decision-making; public participation

 

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