How can we shape urban development towards sustainable and prosperous futures?
This course will explore sustainable cities as engines for greening the economy. It places cities in the context of sustainable urban transformation and climate change. Sustainable urban transformation refers to structural transformation processes – multi-dimensional and radical change –...
Environmental law may be the one institution standing between us and planetary exhaustion. It is also an institution that needs to be reconciled with human liberty and economic aspirations. This course considers these issues and provides a tour through existing legal regimes governing pollution, water law, endangered species, toxic substances...
This course is designed to introduce participants to the issues of energy in the 21st century – including food and fuels – which are inseparably linked – and will discuss energy production and utilization from the biology, engineering, economics, climate science, and social science perspectives.
This course covers the current...
This course explores the Circular Economy: how businesses can create value by reusing and recycling products, how designers can come up with amazingly clever solutions, and how individuals can contribute to make the Circular Economy happen. Participants learn to re-think the economic system, and act upon it. The course is...
This course takes a multidisciplinary approach, to examine the energy transition question from each of these perspectives. It starts by introducing global energy and sustainability issues, and possible scenarios in the first week. To facilitate and realise changes in energy systems, technology and innovation plays an important role. This will...
This course explores how water can be used in the planning of cities to improve liveability in the face of climate change and population growth. Participants consider and discuss the latest solutions and concepts on urban design and modelling, climate change adaptation, behaviour change, and social and government engagement. Specifically...
This course teaches how to develop and use models in environmental economics and energy economics, covering both conceptual aspects and numerical modeling. It explores different modeling approaches, highlight their strengths and weaknesses, and discuss how to interpret and use their results to make informed decisions.
The students participating in the...
This online training course aims at introducing an economics perspective to environmental problems and environmental policy. Its ultimate goal is to highlight that the value of the environment can be estimated and integrated into decision-making processes to help deliver sustainable development. It is not intended to replace the need for...
The master's degree "Green Economy" seeks to provide the scientific understanding on which the transition to a green economy can be based, including the principles of environmental sustainability and the societal responses required to implement these in practice.
Core units delivered are: Biodiversity and ecosystem services, carbon management, environmental law...
This module presents an expanded circular flow analysis that takes the biosphere into account. It reviews critiques and alternatives to GNP/GDP, emphasizing natural resource and environmental as well as social sustainability, then discusses the implications of long-term growth of population and economic output, contrasting the goal of economic growth with...