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Title Physics of the Changing Environment A

Excerpt The course will cover basic physics of environmental processes and of measurement techniques in the atmosphere, the ocean, lake-land-forest systems, and other biological systems. It will place its work in the context of climate change and other aspects of environmental change. This course is solely intended for students who have NOT completed a previous first […]

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SDGs Climate ActionLife Below WaterLife on Land

Types Undergraduate Course

Divisions Faculty of Arts and Science

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Units Department of Physics (FAS)

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Sustainability

Excerpt The United Nations Commission on Environment and Development popularized the term sustainable development in its 1987 report, Our Common Future. How far have we come since then, as a global community, in implementing sustainability as a model for development? In this course we will examine the history, measurement, and present-day models and applications of sustainability […]

Course Code ENV210H5

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SDGs Affordable and Clean EnergyClimate ActionDecent Work and Economic Growth

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Life Below WaterLife on LandResponsible Consumption and ProductionSustainable Cities and Communities

Types Undergraduate Course

Divisions University of Toronto Mississauga

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Units Department of Geography, Geomatics and Environment (UTM)

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Title Planetary Health: Environmental Change and Human Health

Excerpt The course introduces students to a wide range of topics and issues about the impacts of change in natural systems (e.g., forests, ocean, climate) on human health. Through readings and discussion, students will explore how the potential health effects of environmental change vary across groups of people having different socio-economic characteristics. A number of case […]

Course Code ENV441H1

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SDGs Climate ActionLife on LandPeace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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Reduced InequalitiesSustainable Cities and Communities

Types Undergraduate Course

Divisions Faculty of Arts and Science

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Units School of Environment (FAS)

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Politics and Policy of Wildlife Conservation

Excerpt This course is an in-depth analysis of conservation policy in Canada. The course begins with an overview biodiversity crisis facing the planet and then moves to an overview of Canada’s approach to managing biodiversity across the country. We will carefully examine the federal Species at Risk Act as well as the provincial and territorial wildlife […]

Course Code ENV452H5

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SDGs Life on LandPeace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Types Undergraduate Course

Divisions University of Toronto Mississauga

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Units Department of Geography, Geomatics and Environment (UTM)

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Title Environmental Justice at a Time of Crisis

Excerpt This course investigates key dimensions of environmental justice in relation to a variety of case studies. It examines the justice implications of toxic legacies, and future directions in research and action at a time of many environmental crises. Students will analyse how different actors – including human and more than human species – intersect with […]

Course Code ENV451H1

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SDGs Climate Action

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Units School of Environment (FAS)

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Pathways to Sustainability: An Interdisciplinary Approach

Excerpt ENV222H1 explores the concept and practice of sustainability by integrating scientific, technological, economic, political, psychological, historical, and ethical perspectives. The course begins by analyzing the challenges posed by the ecological crisis, including its historical roots. It then goes on to explore and evaluate a variety of approaches, strategies, and actions—at a personal, local, national, and […]

Course Code ENV222H1

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SDGs Affordable and Clean EnergyClimate ActionLife Below Water

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Life on LandResponsible Consumption and Production

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Title Environmental Science Seminar

Excerpt Scientists from within and external to the university share and discuss challenges, findings and opportunities. Specific topics (and speakers) vary from year to year but may draw from rehabilitation techniques, contaminants in our environment, environmental health, impacts on landscapes and communities, biodiversity, water, and modelling of environmental processes. This course is for students enrolled in […]

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SDGs Clean Water and SanitationClimate ActionGood Health and Well-Being

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Life Below WaterLife on LandResponsible Consumption and Production

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Divisions Faculty of Arts and Science

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Units School of Environment (FAS)

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Title Urban Ecology

Excerpt The ecology of urban areas through consideration of the biological and physical environments, in particular how the human-constructed environment alters pre-existing biophysical conditions and interactions. Encompasses a comparative perspective to study the development of these emerging ecosystems of increasing importance given global urbanization. Saturday field trip using local transit.

Course Code ENV432H1

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Life on LandSustainable Cities and Communities

Types Undergraduate Course

Divisions Faculty of Arts and Science

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Units Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (FAS)

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Title Governing the Commons: Communities and Conservation

Excerpt Common-pool resources (CPRs) include pastures, forests, watersheds, ocean fisheries, traffic, the Internet, and the Earth’s climate. CPRs present a variety of social dilemmas because it is difficult to exclude and prevent resources users from accessing, using, and polluting a resource. Individual self-interest may put CPRs at risk of overuse, overconsumption, and exploitation to result in […]

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SDGs Clean Water and SanitationClimate ActionLife Below Water

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Life on LandPeace, Justice and Strong InstitutionsReduced InequalitiesResponsible Consumption and Production

Types Undergraduate Course

Divisions University of Toronto Mississauga

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Units Department of Geography, Geomatics and Environment (UTM)

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Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Environment

Excerpt One of two foundation courses for the School’s undergraduate program. Introduces students to ways in which different disciplines contribute to our understanding of environment. Instructors and guest lecturers are drawn from the sciences, social sciences and the humanities and will present subject matter, assumptions, conceptualizations and methodologies of their disciplines.

Course Code ENV221H1

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SDGs Quality Education

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Divisions Faculty of Arts and Science

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