Course Details
Country:
Netherlands
Institution:
Free University of Amsterdam
Course Title:
Sustainability and Environmental Change
Course Number:
AB_1230
Course Description:
The environment plays a crucial role in supporting societies, for example by providing materials, energy, food, clean air, and clean water. Environmental conditions change over space and time, influenced by both natural and human factors. In this course students learn about the environment’s pivotal role in achieving sustainable solutions for human development. Starting from the key environmental components water, land and atmosphere, we characterize environmental change and how that leads to other environmental and societal changes. Methods to assess environmental change are addressed and students identify for their specific case studies what strengths, opportunities, weaknesses, and threats are associated to the ‘planet dimension’. The course comprises interactive lectures and exercises and is evaluated through an assignment and a written exam.
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
Pending For Approval
Attachment Files:
Studyguide (13).pdf
