Fall 2013 quarter
- Faculty
- Paul Pickett Water resources engineering
- Description
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Focus: the science and policy of global and regional climate change.
This elective will address:
- The science of global greenhouse gas emissions and climate change, including the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
- Current strategies to reduce GHG emissions, such as carbon cap-and-trade, carbon taxes, and renewable energy
- Potential impacts of climate change and ocean acidification on the Pacific Northwest, including the Pacific Coast, Puget Sound, rivers and streams, agriculture, forests, arid lands, and human infrastructure and communities
- Current efforts to adapt to impacts
- The interactions of the scientific, economic, legal, political, cultural and social aspects of the problem
- New and emerging ideas about the problem and how to make progress in solving it
- Advertised Schedule
- 6-10p Mon
- Campus Location
- Olympia
- Online Learning
- Hybrid Online Learning < 25% Delivered Online
- Books
- Greener Store
- Undergraduate Credit Option
- Requires Faculty Approval
- Offered During
- Evening