Introductory, Earth Sciences, Notes

Climate change

explores climate change and global warming, how the Earth’s global mean surface temperature is determined, natural greenhouse effect and how this contributes to a balanced global climate, human impact on the atmosphere including the impact of industrialisation & other sources of greenhouse gases connected to humans, means of measuring climate change

Introduction to Environmental Engineering

introduction, mass & energy fundamentals, physical chemistry & principles, organic chemistry, microbiology & microbial growth, erosion control & stormwater management, water, waste, air pollution, global events

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

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

Earth Sciences lecture notes

big bang & early solar system, earth structure, plate tectonic theory, ocean floor, plate reconstructions, volcanoes, minerals, rocks, seismology, driving forces of plate tectonics, sedimentary rocks, geological time, igneous & metamorphic rocks, mountain building, sea, currents, waves, tides, climates, coastal processes, fresh water, remote sensing, planets

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