Nature-Based Climate Solutions?

3.0 credits · Undergraduate

The risks and costs associated with climate change, and the uneven distribution of the risks and costs, produce hot politics. In the past 20 years, ‘Natural Climate Solutions’ (NCS) has emerged as an important environmental policy and management response. NCS encompasses a range of strategies focused on managing agriculture, forests, grasslands, and aquatic environments to store carbon in order to meet GHG reduction goals. Planning, implementation, finance, governance and assessment raise multiple questions, and NCS represents a research and policy frontier for scientists, policy makers, practitioners, and activists. Through interdisciplinary active learning strategies, students in the course will engage critical questions as part of an effort to assess and to develop NCS.