Climate and Communities

3 credits · Undergraduate

This course explores various scales of climate impacts, mitigation, and adaptation from the global to the local through a lens of climate justice, geographies of race, and political ecology. We will explore climate plans such as the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the U.S. National Climate Assessment while also taking a close look at examples of tribal and community-based climate mitigation projects. Students will examine the similarities and differences in climate decision-making and actions at various scales. Students will learn the interconnections between climate processes and the complexities that shape our social and political systems. We will then apply this lens to an analysis of sites across California and beyond.