Climate change is an urgent and multifaceted challenge facing all of society.
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.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
THE SALATA INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE AND SUSTAINABILITY
This course explores the varied roles that international lawyers and international institutions have played in shaping responses to climate change, the competing legal projects and strategies that they have developed to do so, and the shifting geopolitical contexts in which this work is taking place.
This course examines the economics of place. We study cities in their role as engines of modern economies. In part two of the course, we consider policies to address affordable housing, urban sprawl, traffic congestion, regional economic divides, persistent joblessness, climate change, and informal settlements.
MLD-412 is an experiential-learning lab that will enable students to work on financial and operational challenges with real-world clients. In 2022-23, projects will focus primarily on climate-related challenges.
Climate change, urbanization, and conflict mean that global disasters are on the rise. How should the world respond when disasters force people from their homes? How can we better help the world’s refugees? This course examines the past, present, and future of the international humanitarian response system. We will explore how Doctors Without Borders, the United Nations, the Red Cross, and other aid agencies came to be and how global response standards, international humanitarian law, and new technologies are shaping worldwide disaster relief.
Global Climate Change explores the impact of human-induced climate change on modern society and economy. The premise of the course is that a changing climate, and the way we respond to it, will ultimately affect and even transform every aspect of modern capitalism.
Climate change is transforming the Arctic region. Through the lens of the rapidly changing Arctic region, this module will give students an overarching understanding of local and global climate challenges, as well as tools and experience in developing their own policy and social innovations to address complex issues in a sustainable way.
This course addresses contrasting politics and practices of education for democracy and democratization, in state-funded schooling and the lives of youth, focusing on theories and cases in Canada and the USA in comparative transnational context.
This course offers an overview of core U.S. state functions, the legal questions they present, and the current policy debates and legal battles over the future of our energy sector.
In this course we will explore the role of business in formulating, influencing and implementing public policy. Many Kennedy School courses put students in the position of public sector officials when exploring public policy issues and analysis. Individual classes will focus on consequential public policy controversies (cases and readings) in areas where business has a central role and which present hard questions about the tension between public and private interests -- including climate change.
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.
By tracing out the development of core concepts, this course offers the chance to survey a series of complex dynamics of dependence, control, crisis, and escape that govern the interplay between man and the environment.