PSCI 5700 - Managing Challenges from Climate Change

This class addresses threats from human-driven climate change and political and management challenges arising from these threats. We begin with an overview of the basic science of climate change, scenarios for how it may unfold, its consequences and costs, and the institutional architecture for addressing its various challenges. The remainder of the class addresses challenges in three areas: (1) reducing greenhouse gas emissions and sequestering carbon from the atmosphere, (2) adapting to the effects of climate change, and (3) supporting climate change victims. In each area we explore the nature of the challenge and a variety of practical solutions.

Note: Open to upper-level undergraduate and graduate students.

Credits: 3 hours