This course introduces the academic approach of Sustainability and explores how today’s human societies can endure in the face of global change, ecosystem degradation and resource limitations. The course focuses on key knowledge areas of sustainability theory and practice, including population, ecosystems, global change, energy, agriculture, water, environmental economics and...
Aimed mainly at current university students and recent graduates, the Summer School combines environmental economics and policy, enterprise management, and financial markets and investment to study critical global environmental challenges in the 21st century.
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This course provides an overview of the municipal solid waste management situation in developing countries covering key elements of the waste management system, with its technical, environmental, social, financial and institutional aspects. Participants learn about appropriate and already applied solutions through selected case studies. The course also covers strategic planning...
The ITC-ILO, jointly with the Employment Policy Department and the Department of Statistics, is launching two new courses – integrated within the learning series on the transition to formal economy – in response to the increasing need for countries to strengthen their capacities to produce and collect data on informality...
The goal of UAM’s Summer School of Economics and Business (SSEB) is to offer high-quality courses taught in English by professors of the Faculty of Economics and Business Studies, and to bring together students from all over the world and Spanish students in a truly international environment. The academic excellence...
The World Bank Group is back again, with a new MOOC on climate change, ‘From Climate Science to Action’ after the Turn Down the Heat Series, starting on May 9, 2016. With an overview of COP21 outcomes from Paris, this action-oriented MOOC gives you the opportunity to learn about regional...
With our growing appetite for electrical and electronic products, combined with rapid innovation and ever-shorter product lifespans, e-waste has now become one of the fastest growing waste streams.
This MOOC will help you to understand why and how we must manage e-waste in an environmentally sound manner and how you...
People depend on nature to sustain and fulfil human life, yet the values of nature are typically ignored in decisions. Mapping and modelling ecosystem services can help highlight the diverse benefits provided to people by nature (what and where) and explore how those benefits might change under different management options--thus...