SUMA K4020 Cost Benefit Analysis Instructor: Satyajit Bose Course Overview Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) is a policy assessment method that quantifies the value of policy consequences (usually called impacts) in monetary t

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• Market failure
• Costs
• Cost–benefit analysis
• Decision theory
• Public finance
• Government
• Environmental economics
• Policy analysis
• Evaluation methods
• Science
• Evaluation

SUMA K4169 Sustainability Metrics Instructors: Adam Freed & Aaron Koch Course Description Over the past two decades, various institutions, both public and private, have begun to set clear targets for environmental perfor

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• Environmental social science
• Environmental economics
• Sustainable architecture
• Sustainable building
• PlaNYC
• Global Reporting Initiative
• Green building
• Climate change mitigation
• ICLEI
• Environment
• Sustainability
• Sustainable development

SUMA K4235 Science of Urban Ecology Instructor: Amy Karpati Course Overview This course facilitates learning about 1) basic principles related to ecological interactions of life on Earth, 2) the causes and consequences o

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• Systems ecology
• Conservation
• Ecology
• Philosophy of biology
• Bioremediation
• Conservation biology
• Restoration ecology
• Applied ecology
• Biodiversity
• Environment
• Biology
• Science

Earth Institute Practicum SUMA K4734.001 Science-Based Solutions for Sustainability Time: T 4:15-6:00PM Location: TBD Instructor Information

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• International development
• Development
• International economics
• Environmental social science
• The Earth Institute
• Adaptation to global warming
• Columbia Water Center
• Jeffrey Sachs
• Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory
• Columbia University
• Research institutes
• Environment

SUMA K4180 Writing about Global Science for the International Media Instructor : Claudia Dreifus Course Description This is an interdisciplinary workshop for scientists, future NGO workers and journalists seeking skills

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• Andrew Hacker
• Education

SUMA K4035 – Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Measuring and Minimizing the Carbon Footprint Instructor Jonathan Dickinson Course Description Global greenhouse gas emissions are now at a record high, and the world’s scientif

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• Air pollution
• Climate change policy
• Greenhouse gas inventory
• Carbon finance
• Greenhouse gas accounting
• Emissions & Generation Resource Integrated Database
• Emission intensity
• Greenhouse gas
• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
• Environment
• Climate change
• United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

SUMA K4205 GIS for Sustainability Management Instructor Information: Dara Mendeloff GIS Specialist, CIESIN Course Description Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are a system of computer software, data and analysis meth

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• Science
• Spatial analysis
• Geospatial analysis
• ArcGIS
• Data model
• GIS applications
• Geographic information science
• Esri Education User Conference
• Cartography
• Geographic information systems
• Statistics

SUMA K4720 Policy and Legal Context Instructor: Richard Horsch Course Description Public policy shapes how the man-made and natural environments are managed and regulated. To be effective, sustainability practitioners mu

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• Earth
• Environmental economics
• Environmentalism
• Sustainability
• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
• Environmental law
• IPCC Fourth Assessment Report
• Environment
• Environmental social science
• Environmental protection

Pfizer se suma a la conmemoración del primer Día Mundial del Trastorno Bipolar (TB) Fundamental la prevención de recaídas en las fases maníacas o depresivas del TB Es una de las seis causas principales de años vivi

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SUMA K4170 Sustainable Operations Fall 2013 Instructor: Jeffrey F. Scott ([removed]); ([removed]Class Meeting: Wednesdays, 6:10 to 8:00 p.m. Class Location: Hamilton 303 Office Hours: By appointment

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• Corporate sustainability
• Sustainability
• Environmental economics
• Environment
• Environmental social science