GEOG430

Prerequisite: Permission of BSOS-Geography department. Or GEOG201 or GEOG202; and (GEOG306 and GEOG301). Jointly offered with GEOG630. Cred it only granted for: GEOG430, GEOG630 or GEOG498E. Formerly: GEOG498E. Students will learn about climate change and energy policy from multiple perspectives includingsocial economic, technological, scientific, and behavioural aspects and their interdependence.The course will also consider the report of the Intergovernmental Panel onClimate Change on mitigation and applied cost/benefit analysis of Climate Change. Formatwill be discussion, supplemented with lecture segments and applied workshops asneeded. This course will make occasional use the popular open source statistical computerlanguage R for practical workshops