Sustainability in the global context

Summary

This course equips you with the tools needed to evaluate the economic, historical, and political dimensions of climate change from a global perspective. You will also learn about the international institutions and megatrends shaping and constraining the solutions.

Content

Keywords

climate change, megatrends, micro & macroeconomics, essential history, policy tools, geopolitics, future of world trade, future development models

Learning Prerequisites

Required courses

none.

Recommended courses

none.

Important concepts to start the course

none; course is self-contained.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course, the student must be able to:

• Define global aspects of sustainability
• Integrate economic, historical and political analysis.
• Analyze the impact and effectiveness of climate change policy
• Explore online databases related to climate and trade

Transversal skills

• Continue to work through difficulties or initial failure to find optimal solutions.

Teaching methods

Lecture with dicussion, group work, in-class written assignments using ChatGPT, in-class problem solving by group

Expected student activities

Moderate reading/viewing before class, in-class written assignments using ChatGPT, in-class problem solving by group.

Assessment methods

Written January exam (30%), Written group work (30%), class participation (10%), individual problem sets (30%).

Supervision

Resources

Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI)

No

Bibliography

to be handed out.

Notes/Handbook

no.

Websites

• http://to be listed on the moodle.

Prerequisite for

none.