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CLIMATE AND SUSTAINABILITY

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Harvard faculty teach an expanding array of courses examining the many dimensions of this shared challenge. Explore courses in climate and sustainability ranging from economics and English to public health and climate science. 

 

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GHHP 70

Global Response to Disasters and Refugee Crises

This course examines the past, present, and future of the international humanitarian response system.
Spring 2025 Graduate Undergraduate Not Available Law & Policy Public Health & Medicine Courses
Mon, Jan 27, 2025
ESPP 173 001

Water Resources in Developing Countries

This course will examine major issues of water resources (i.e. water sources, supply, quality, treatment, use, distribution and storage, policy) in the developing world at various geographic locations and scales.
Spring 2025 Graduate Undergraduate Not Available Law & Policy Physical Sciences Courses
Mon, Jan 27, 2025
ESPP 90S

The Technology, Economics, and Public Policy of Renewable Energy

This course examines the long run and short run prospects for renewable energy.
Spring 2025 Graduate Undergraduate Available Law & Policy Physical Sciences Courses
Mon, Jan 27, 2025
GENED 1094

Confronting Climate Change: A Foundation in Science, Technology and Policy

How can we address the issue of climate change, reducing the damages by preparing for impacts already underway and fixing the problem by transforming our energy system? This course will consider the challenge of climate change and what to do about it.
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Arts & Humanities Design & Architecture Law & Policy Physical Sciences Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
GOV 94EK

Globalization and Private Governance

This research seminar examines the impacts of globalization on attempts to address key social, political, and environmental problems, including climate change, focusing in particular on the roles played by multinational corporations.
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Arts & Humanities Law & Policy Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
ID 205

Societal Response to Disasters

This foundation course examines how societies and states have responded to a range of disasters around the world, drawing key lessons for communities (and nations) preparing for climate changes.
Fall 2024 Graduate Available Arts & Humanities Law & Policy Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
ECON 1410, SUP-125

Public Economics: Designing Government Policy

This course analyzes what role the government plays and should play in a market economy. It covers topics such as tax policy, health care policy, retirement policy, environmental protection, and state and local policy. The course emphasizes recent empirical research on policy issues and teaches students how to conduct such studies. Much of the material we will cover relates directly to ongoing policy debates.
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Arts & Humanities Law & Policy Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
ESPP 90P

Climate Responsibility and Climate Action

This course examines the nature of climate responsibility from ethical, historical, scientific and policy perspectives and the efficacy of approaches to accelerate responsible climate action by both state and non-state actors.
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Not Available Arts & Humanities Law & Policy Physical Sciences Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
FYSEMR 70P

The World of Tomorrow: Constructing and Inhabiting the 21st Century

The built environment has profound effects on both our daily lives as well as the human condition at large. It determines where and how we live, work, play, and dream. The built environment embodies concrete stances on a wide variety of material, spatial, cultural, and generational issues within a society. The quality and availability of affordable housing, for instance, is not merely an economic concern, but also a value judgment about the obligations of a society to its citizens.
Fall 2024 Undergraduate Not Available Law & Policy Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
ESPP 171

Solid Waste In Developing Countries

This course will examine major issues of solid waste (i.e. production, management, storage, treatment, disposal, infrastructure costs and financing, policy) in the developing world at various geographic locations and scales across municipal, industrial, electronic, biological/medical, and radioactive waste.
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Arts & Humanities Law & Policy Physical Sciences Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
HISTSCI 2985, IGA 513.

Science, Power, and Politics

This seminar introduces students to the major contributions of the field of science and technology studies (STS) to the analysis of politics and policymaking in democratic societies.
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Engineering Law & Policy Life Sciences Physical Sciences Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
ECON 2688

Environmental and Climate Economics

This class covers the economics of the environment and climate change, with a focus on market-based solutions to externalities, open-access problems, and blended policy responses.
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Business Law & Policy Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024