ENV-410: Science of climate changeThe course equips students with a comprehensive scientific understanding of climate change covering a wide range of topics from physical principles, historical climate change, greenhouse gas emissions, the IPCC assessment to future scenarios and climate ac ...
ENV-619: Summer School: Forests in the AnthropoceneThe participants will reflect on their own scientific work with respect to other disciplinary methods and discuss possible benefits of interdisciplinary approach in their field. Moreover, students will further be able to learn the advanced methods used in ...
ENG-410: Energy supply, economics and transitionThis course examines energy systems from various angles: available resources, how they can be combined or substituted, their private and social costs, whether they can meet the energy demand, and how the transition to a renewable energy system can be foste ...
PENS-225: RhonescapeRHONEscape aims at realizing the necessary interdisciplinary educational background of the problematics affecting highly-corrected large rivers, by examining riverine ecological, hydrological and morphological spatial features with new methods of conceivin ...
AR-154: Environmental history and theories ILe cours vise a familiariser les etudiants avec l'histoire de l'environnement et des paysages, et avec la maniere dont les preoccupations environnementales amenent a repenser aujourd'hui le sens et les principes de l'architecture et des disciplines de pr ...
AR-466: UE D : Territory and societyL'UED Territoire et société a pour objectif de familiariser l'étudiant.e avec les méthodes d'observation des SHS en développant une réflexion sur les transformations des villes suisses à partir d'un travail d'enquête et d'analyse in-situ de formes variées ...
AR-302(ae): Studio BA6 (Pantazis et Rentzou)In the center of Athens, the presence of water has been completely eradicated. With record-
high global temperatures and reduced rainfalls, it is now urgent to bring water back, creating
new types of quality public spaces for citizens, promoting innovative ...
AR-302(af): Studio BA6 (Tsuneyama)Urban Wild Ecology / Production and Decomposition Urbanism / SOIL studio focuses on earth-conscious construction methods and materials that return to the soil. A radical vision will be sought to incorporate a comprehensive, self-sustaining system of the ma ...
ENV-724: Climate economicsThe course introduces non economists to the economic analysis of climate change: economic activity and climate change, estimation of climate impacts, optimal mitigation and adaptation, national and international climate policy, instruments for climate poli ...
PENS-223: Waters within citiesKnowledge of how to articulate the "urban transition" is today urgently needed. The course reflects on the possibility of designing an urban space without negatively impacting on its water quality. ...