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ENVIR/SMEA 201: Society and the Oceans, NSc/SSc, DIV
SPRING 2025 – M/W, 3:30 – 4:50
5 credits. Requires enrollment of a quiz section
Course Description: Examines climate change, its causes and impacts (on ecosystems, water availability, extreme weather, communities, health, and food) globally, nationally, and locally. Surveys its solutions (mitigation, adaptation, migration, and just transition), actors that implement them (governments, firms, NGOs, activists, communities, individuals) and approaches they use (regulation, markets, planning, innovation, social movements, behavioral change).