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Center for Environmental Public Policy (CEPP)

Public Policy Courses on the Environment / Energy

Fall 2008

Environment and Technology from the Policy and Business Perspective
Tu Th 12:30-2:00 pm
Professor Margaret Taylor * About Margaret Taylor
Location: 250 GSPP
Undergraduate course information: CCN: 77280, Course (Credits): PP182-1 (4)
Graduate course information: CCN: 00002, Course (Credits): PP282-1 (4)

Description: Three hours of lecture and one hour of discussion per week. This class explores a wide range of environmental policy issues that shed light on the complex relationships between the natural environment, technology, policy, and business. The first few weeks provide an overview of contemporary (and historic) environmental problems and introduce a number of political and economic themes as well as approaches to environmental policy and management. But most of the classes explore the government and business contexts in which particular environmental technology “heroes” and “villains” develop, with the idea of creating a “bottom-up” understanding of the dynamics of environmental innovation as well as technology-induced risk. This class should particularly appeal to students interested in designing innovative approaches to environmental policy and management from positions in government, industry, or the non-profit sector. Topics include water management, approaches to solid waste issues, the reduction of air pollution from stationary and mobile sources, solutions to climate change, and coping strategies with respect to emerging technologies with potential environmental implications, including nanotechnology. Taught concurrently with PP282-1. Discussion section.

Energy & Society
Tu Th 2:00-3:30pm
Professor Daniel Kammen * About Daniel Kammen
Location: A0001 Hearst Annex
Undergraduate course information: CCN: 77253, Course (Credits): C184-1 (4)
Graduate course information: CCN: 00003, Course (Credits): C284-1 (4)

Description: Three hours of lecture and one hour of discussion per week. Energy sources, uses, and impacts: an introduction to the technology, politics, economics, and environmental effects of energy in contemporary society. Energy and well-being; energy in international perspective, origins, and character of energy crisis. Also listed as Energy and Resources Group C100 (undergraduate) or C200 (graduate). Discussion section.

 

Last Updated:  11/2008