PA 4790 is also offered in Spring 2024
PA 4790 is also offered in Spring 2023
PA 4790 is also offered in Spring 2022
Spring 2024 | PA 4790 Section 001: Topics in Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy -- Climate Action and Adaptation Planning (67103)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 6 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
Topics Course
- Enrollment Requirements:
- junior or senior
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
UMTC, East Bank
Science Teaching Student Svcs 512A
- Enrollment Status:
Open (15 of 30 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Selected topics in the field of science, technology, and environmental policy. Topics vary.
- Class Notes:
- Global climate change poses the most significant environmental challenge of this generation. The response to the climate challenge spans grassroots movements to coordinated international policy. But ultimately the impact to people is local. As policies to mitigate and adapt to climate change continue to take shape, what do decision makers, advocates, and analysts need to know to take effective action? This course will investigate climate change policy as it pertains to the actions communities must take. Whether the community is a town, city, county or even state, this action takes the form of a Community Action Plan or Community Adaptation Plan. This course will explore existing and proposed approaches to mitigate and adapt to climate change through policies that cross scales of governance (from the local to the global) and that impact a wide range of sectors (energy, transportation, manufacturing, water, agriculture, buildings, etc.). Students will have the opportunity to work with a MN city actively participating in climate work via the MN Green Step Cities program. A key theme of the course will be how policy can be shaped in the face of a variety of competing interests to achieve commonly desired outcomes. Policy is typically a graduate or professional school pursuit. As an undergraduate course, the objective here is to introduce the field to advanced undergraduates as either a further field of study or to further their understanding of policy in enhancement of knowledge of their own field. Students will gain a basic understanding of a more holistic world view and how to anchor that view to their major expertise. http://classinfo.umn.edu/?rosex122+PA4790+Spring2024
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/67103/1243
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