Classes

CEE/ENV/ENE 334 / SPI 452
Semester:
Fall
Offered:
2021
As the world’s population grows and becomes more affluent, human impact on the global environment also increases. This course examines a set of global environmental issues including population growth, ozone layer depletion, climate change, air pollution, the environmental consequences of energy supply and demand decisions and sustainable…
SPI 594s: Climate Change: Science and Policy
Semester:
Fall
Offered:
2021
Designed to improve students' skill, confidence and judgment in use of science in policy applications. Using case studies, real-world examples, and in-class exercises, in the areas of atmospheric and energy policy, the emphasis is on preparing both non-scientists and scientists to use, understand, and critique science in environmental policy…
WWS402-S04: Policy Task Force, Sustainability at Princeton University: Lessons for Campus and the World
Semester:
Spring
Offered:
2017

As global populations grow and affluence increases the use of natural resources, pollutant emissions and greenhouse gas emissions are increasing while undisturbed natural ecosystems are disappearing. As a result of unsustainable practices, the world is confronting increasing environmental challenges.

Princeton University can…

WWS 591c. Policy Workshop: State Policies on Hydraulic Fracturing
Semester:
Fall
Offered:
2014
Climate change is a global environmental threat that will have increasingly undesirable effects around the world in our lifetimes. International negotiations to limit the emissions of long-lived greenhouse gases (GHG) have not yet succeeded in placing needed limits on emissions. There is a very real possibility that current emissions of GHG have…
WWS 350: The Environment: Science and Policy, part 2
Semester:
Spring
Offered:
2013
Overarching goal: Understand how environmental science informs environmental policy making. Case studies of stratospheric ozone protection and climate change. 
WWS 591e: Policy Workshop: Methane Mitigation - Technical and Policy Opportunities
Semester:
Fall
Offered:
2012
Climate change is a global environmental threat that will have increasingly undesirable effects around the world in our lifetimes. International negotiations to limit the emissions of long-lived greenhouse gases (GHG) have stalled. There is a very real possibility that current emissions of GHG have already committed the world to “dangerous…
WWS591e: Policy Workshop: Post-Copenhagen Climate Change Initiatives: Fast Action Mitigation Strategies
Semester:
Fall
Offered:
2010
Climate change is a global environmental threat which will have increasingly undesirable effects around the world in our lifetimes. International negotiations to limit the emissions of long lived greenhouse gases (GHG) have stalled. There is a very real possibility that current emissions of GHG have already committed the world to “dangerous…
FRS 136: Living in a Polluted Greenhouse
Semester:
Spring
Offered:
2009
WWS/ENV 334: Global Environmental Issues
Semester:
Spring
Offered:
2009
As the world population grows and becomes more industrialized, human impact on the global environment also increases. This course examines a set of global environmental issues such as population growth, climate change, ozone layer depletion, air pollution, loss of biological diversity, depletion of global fisheries, and the environmental…
WWS 591e Policy Workshop: Integrating Clean Air and Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Strategies in Future Environmental Policy: A Focus on Black Carbon
Semester:
Fall
Offered:
2008
Climate change is a global environmental issue which will have increasingly undesirable effects around the world in our lifetimes. Air pollution is a local, regional and hemispheric issue that has adverse impacts on public health, agricultural yields and ecosystems. In many cases the emission of air pollutants and greenhouse gases (GHG) come from…
WWS402d: Policy Task Force - Development of Policy Initiatives for the Sustainable Use of Energy at Princeton University
Semester:
Spring
Offered:
2007
Compelling evidence that climate change is occurring as a result of emissions of carbon dioxide from fossil fuel combustion now exists. In addition, increasing global demand for oil in the face of limited global supply is driving up oil prices. For both these reasons there is a growing need and interest in reducing our demand for fossil energy…
WWS 591a: Policy Workshop: Climate Change, State Initiatives, and Coastal Hazards: Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for New Jersey
Semester:
Fall
Offered:
2006
Scientific evidence has become compelling that climate change will cause substantial changes to our planet. Reductions in the emissions of greenhouse gases are needed to slow the expected rate of global warming. Reductions in the emissions of carbon dioxide, a key greenhouse gas, require changes in both the energy system and in how we use land…
WWS 584: Methods in Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy
Semester:
Spring
Offered:
2006

Science and technology are having an increasing influence on modern society and the natural environment is increasingly stressed by human activities. How scientific information is framed can have a large influence on technical and environmental policy development and implementation. This course presents a set of basic methods and tools for…

WWS-402d: Policy Task Force - Energy for Sustainable Development
Semester:
Spring
Offered:
2006

Energy issues are increasingly in the news. Following Hurricane Katrina domestic gasoline, natural gas and home heating fuel costs increased dramatically. Debate continues over opening the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge for oil drilling. Questions of national security surround Middle Eastern oil supplying nations. Geoscientists are predicting…

WWS 402f: Task Force - Sustainable Development: Can We Do It?
Semester:
Spring
Offered:
2003

Sustainable development has been placed on the international agenda through a series of international conferences organized by the United Nations. The first of these meetings was the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment held in Stockholm, Sweden in 1972 which was a critical catalyst in putting environmental issues on both…