Climate Governance: How Individuals, Communities, NGOs, Firms, and Governments Can Solve the Climate Crisis

Course Details

  • Acronym ENVIR/SMEA 201
  • Instructor(s) Nives Dolsak
  • Quarter Spring 2026
  • Credits 5
  • Meeting Times MW 3:30 PM - 4:50 PM
  • Location HCK 132

Course Description

Examines climate change, its causes and impacts (on ecosystems, water availability, extreme weather, communities, health, and food) globally, nationally, and locally. Surveys its solutions (mitigation, adaptation, migration, and just transition), actors that implement them (governments, firms, NGOs, activists, communities, individuals) and approaches they use (regulation, markets, planning, innovation, social movements, behavioral change).