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Earth Sciences

- (also known as geoscience or the geosciences), is an all-embracing term for the sciences related to the planet Earth. It is arguably a special case in planetary science, the Earth being the only known life-bearing planet. There are both reductionist and holistic approaches to Earth science. The major historic disciplines use physics, geology, geography, meteorology, mathematics, chemistry and biology to build a quantitative understanding of the principal areas or spheres of the Earth system - Wikipedia.

Geopolitics and Geoeconomics of Global Energy

strategic and political implications of ongoing trends in global energy markets, particularly markets for crude oil and natural gas, world's major oil and natural gas producing regions (Middle East, the Caspian Region, Russia, Venezuela, and the North Sea), Producer-consumer relationships for China, India, Japan, and the US, foreign policy implications, especially with respect to China

Environmental, Natural Resources and Sustainability Economics (courses)

  • Economics of a Sustainable Society - economic fundamentals, sustainability as an ethic and as a policy standard, interrelationships between sustainability and factors such as income, poverty, educational attainment, empowerment of women and ethnic minorities, international trade, population growth and taxes, policy proposals, discounting, economic development assistance programs, methods for measuring progress, issues, case studies

  • Environmental and Natural Resources Economics - normative foundations, supply and demand, property rights, externalities, natural resource economics, fisheries economics, benefit cost analysis, political economy, compliance and deterrence, incentive regulation, cap & trade, RPS, climate change

Environment and Sustainable Development

examines policy responses to environmental problems caused by economic development with special attention to innovation, innovation for the environment explored: reading material, course download

Global Warming

examines the general topic of climate change and asks are the scientific uncertainties surrounding Global Warming large enough to preclude developing mitigation policies?

Oceanography

geologic origin and physical dynamics of ocean and lake basins, waves and coastal processes, the chemistry of seawater, cycling of elements through the atmosphere and ocean, marine ecosystems, issues in environmental sustainability, effects of human activity and global warming on ocean circulation, sea level and world's climate

Fourier Transforms and Waves in Four Lectures

basic definitions and concepts focusing on computation, basic principles of multidimensional spectra, examples (60 illustrations)

Environmental and Natural Resources Economics

value systems, market allocation, externalities, natural resources, measurement & analysis of benefits & costs, political economy of environmental regulation & resource management, motivating regulatory compliance, policy experiments in incentive regulation, global warming (uncertainty, irreversibility, long-term policy making)

Vector Geomatics

advanced introduction to concepts & principles underlying modern vector based geographic info systems, focusing on basic principles in topology, computational geometry, database management & IT: quizzes, online exam study guide

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