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...
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...
Energy issues have always been important in international relations, but in recent years may have become even more important than in the past due to the widespread awareness of existing limits to energy sources and negative climate impacts. The course discusses global trends in energy consumption and production, various available...
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 investigates and explores the challenges related to metals supply, both scarcity and environmental impacts, and the conditions and consequences of a circular economy for metals. The course was prepared in collaboration with Leiden University, Netherlands and is based on the reports of the Global Metals Flows Working Group...
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...
How can we live a good life on one planet with over seven billion people?
This course explorez greening the economy on four levels – individual, business, city, and nation. It looks at the relationships between these levels and give many practical examples of the complexities and solutions across the...
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 –...
Besides a fundamental redrawing of the geo-political map, the world is facing a new generation of global environmental, socio-economic, political and demographic challenges, for which our international institutions are ill-equipped. Inherent in the new generation of global change challenges are a set of complex linkages, which are poorly understood, but...
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...