CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS, MITIGATION AND ADAPTATION

Undergraduate

This course will explore different types of climatic changes and climate extreme events, and their potential impacts from multiple perspectives, such as loss of biodiversity, impacts on agriculture and food security, water scarcity, human health, economic consequences, etc. Furthermore, students will quantify human sources of greenhouse gas emissions to determine the best approaches for meeting a “safe” or “below dangerous level” of atmospheric concentrations of these gases, which will help cushion the impacts. Students will also use regional & global scenarios of future climate change, and the guidelines set by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to rapidly assess climate change potential adaptation strategies for the PEI & worldwide economy and ecology. PREREQUISITE: ACC 1010 and ACC 1020 Three hours a week; Three semester hours