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2.00 Credits
Sustainable Development (read environmentally sustainable economic development) has become the catch phrase for new thinking that tries to reconcile the seemingly antagonistic issues of environmental protection and economic growth. It is a term that has as many definitions as advocates and is difficult to measure and complicated to apply. The course examines definitions of welfare, well-being, economic growth, and social development along with their relationship to environmental quality and resource conservation. It looks at how such factors as development policy, standard of living, energy use, technology, conservation levels, and public concern shape the sustainability debate. It uses a sectoral approach to capture issues such as employment in sustainable economics, energy use, supply, green designs, and regional approach to capture differences between and among advanced industrial and less developed countries.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the interplay of scientific, political, and economic factors in the formation of environmental policy in the United States. It assesses the role of civic concern, political institutions, regulatory agencies, non-governmental organizations, scientific information, financial factors, and technology in environmental affairs. Lectures, readings, and films enable students to understand the principal issues in the field. The political process that generates environmental laws and regulations is reviewed. Also, real world case studies cover controversial national and international policy issues are explored. The focus is on the role science plays in the policy process, and on the sources of conflict among political and policy actors (elected officials, bureaucrats, legislators, and interest groups).
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1.00 Credits
This one-credit course can be taken as academic preparation for the required course in Environmental Chemistry. It can also be taken as a refresher for students who are returning to the classroom after a number of years.
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3.00 Credits
As we move further into the information age, leadership becomes more diffused in organizations. Organizations, particularly those dealing with technology issues like protecting the environment, face rapidly increasing complexity in which a single person cannot provide leadership in every situation. It is important for all organizational members to understand how organizations function and what roles leaders have so that they are better prepared to lead when it is appropriate. This course examines individual and group behaviors in organizations in relation to relevant leadership theories. Students evaluate their own organizations in light of various structural models and conduct in-depth research in one area of leadership theory.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides practical experience with three widely utilized public domain modeling tools: EPA's Estimation Program Interface for Windows (EPIWIN), that predicts the fate and ecotoxicity of organic chemicals; USGS's PHREEQC aquatic speciation, batch-reaction, one-dimensional transport, and inverse geochemical calculations; and CALTOX, the California EPA's environmental fate and exposure risk assessment tool. These software tools, along with documentation and examples, are freely available on the internet. If you do not have internet access, an installation CD will be provided. In addition, DU has a site license for ChemDraw Ultra. This will serve as a valuable resource in support of the modeling tools. Pre-requisite: ENVI 552.
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2.00 Credits
This course is a rigorous, graduate-level course, designed for students enrolled in the S-MBA curriculum and others who desire to learn more about the science behind environmental issues. The course begins with a review of environmental science as a discipline and an examination of the scientific method, the process by which scientists pursue answers to questions. We then examine ecosystem structure and function, in the absence of human influence. Following these contextual discussions, we then address environmnental ussues under the following general categories: human population dynamics, energy production and consumption, land use perturbations and toxicology, risk and human health.
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3.00 Credits
Environmental science is the study of the interatction between humans and the environment. This course will employ lectures, reading discussion and films to enable stduents to recognize the complex array of fact and theory that comprises this multi-disciplinary field. Students will understand the key elements of the physical and social sciences that make up this discipline, and apply quantitative and qualitative research methods to the analysis of environmental issues present in today's society and economy.
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3.00 Credits
The course provides the fundamental background and theory of environmental chemistry, including correlation, interpretation, and analysis of related topics and issues in environmental modeling as evaluative and predictive tools for assessing environmental outcomes. Additional topics include basic principles of aqueous interactions, phase interactions with water, soil and air, and applications of simultaneous equilibria in environmental settings.
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3.00 Credits
In this course the financial aspects of environmental protection are examined from two perspectives - the broad, economic scale and the more focused accounting perspective. Students will read, analyze and discuss a number of papers addressing the economic issues and impacts associated with the implementation of environmental policy on the state or national level. In the second portion of the course, students will examine the costs associated with the environmental aspects of organizations; i.e., how environmental activities drive certain costs and reduce others, and how organizations account for environmental costs. Contingent and external costs will be examined as well. The process of budgeting for environmental costs also will be reviewed.
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2.00 Credits
No course description available.
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