Course Name: PH 30195 Addressing Climate Change and Environmental Health in Europe and the United States: Lessons from Florence Italy
Course Description: Across the globe, there is a growing base of evidence and opinion suggesting that climate change is affecting both the environment and human health. Indeed, issues in these areas are becoming pervasive, as they affect both ecological conditions and the lives and health of human beings. This course will focus on climate change and environmental health, and it will explore the differing ways in these issue areas are perceived and addressed in Europe and the United States. The course will also draw lessons based on climate change and environmental health issues and efforts in Florence, Italy.
Students in the course will have an opportunity to compare climate change and environmental health perspectives, problems, and public policies in the EU and the US. Florence Italy and one or more comparably sized cities in the United States (US) will be used as illustrative cases for comparison (the US comparison city or cities have not yet been determined, but Cleveland, Ohio and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania are good candidates). After reviewing differing perspectives regarding climate change and ways in which human beings interact with their physical environments, students will compare climate change and environmental challenges, governing institutions and actors, policymaking processes, and climate change and environmental health policies in the US and Europe. Climate change and environmental health perspectives, problems and issues, governance arrangements, and related public policies in Florence Italy will help illuminate approaches taken in Europe and they will be compared to situations in Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and/or other appropriate cities in the US. Students in the course will gain an appreciation for differing perspectives on climate change and environmental health, as well as the challenges facing Europe and the US and the varying ways these challenges can and are being addressed.
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisites: None
This course is offered through the Kent Campus. Please review course tuition at /tuition to find costs for Kent campus tuition.