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 ...
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 ...
ENV-421: Sustainability, climate and energyThe course provides students with a comprehensive scientific understanding of the links between climate and energy systems in the context of sustainability. It will cover topics related to natural and anthropogenic climate change, the fundamentals of energ ...
ENV-525: Physics and hydrology of snowThis course covers principles of snow physics, snow hydrology, snow-atmosphere interaction, and snow modeling. It transmits detailed understanding of physical processes within the snow and at its interfaces with the atmosphere and the ground, and presents ...
ENV-320: Physics and chemistry of the atmosphereThe course provides an introduction to the physical and chemical processes that govern the atmospheric dynamics at small and large scales. The basis is laid for an in depth understanding of our atmospheric environment and the climate system. ...
HUM-471: Economic growth and sustainability IThis course examines growth from various angles: economic growth, growth in the use of resources, need for growth, limits to growth, sustainable growth, population growth. Although grounded in economics, it takes up elements from many other disciplines. ...
HUM-226: Bien-être et limites planétairesCe cours approfondit les acquis d'ENV-101 pour mieux comprendre et mettre en œuvre la durabilité : comment transformer la société vers le bien-être pour tous dans les limites écologiques, avec des approches et solutions sectorielles (énergie, bâtiments, mo ...
ENV-167: Introduction to environmental engineeringKey themes in environmental science and engineering will be show-cased, with examples - from equator to the poles - including atmospheric processes and climate change, water quality, energy resources and urban development, with the amazing technologies use ...
CS-401: Applied data analysisThis course teaches the basic techniques, methodologies, and practical skills required to draw meaningful insights from a variety of data, with the help of the most acclaimed software tools in the data science world (pandas, scikit-learn, Spark, etc.) ...
ENV-370: Environmental system analysis and assessmentLes enjeux environnementaux doivent être abordés de façon systémique. L'Analyse du Cycle de Vie (ACV) et l'Analyse de Flux de Matière (AFM) sont des méthodes permettant d'évaluer de façon globale les performances environnementales des produits, des service ...
ENV-512: Global change ecology and fluvial ecosystemsUnderstand the functioning of rivers, focusing on hydrological, geomorphologic, biogeochemical and ecological components, and their linkages. Analyze impacts of global change on rivers ecosystems, develop skills related to synthesizing and interpreting lit ...
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 ...
ENV-471: Environmental economicsIntroduction to economic analysis applied to environmental issues: all the necessary basic concepts, including cost-benefit analysis, for environmental policy making and its instruments (examples: climate, waste, mobility). Introduction to financial calcul ...
ENV-462: Urban Green&Blue infrastructure and global warmingThe course introduces the concept of green and blue urban infrastructure in the context of global warming. It presents knowledge, concepts, and methods for planning, developing, and maintaining an effective network of green and blue infrastructure in urban ...
ENV-411: Ecohydrological modelingThis course provides the theoretical basis for understanding and modeling the interactions between the hydrologic cycle, vegetation, soil, climate, and human society. ...
MGT-470: Sustainability in the global contextThis course equips you with the tools needed to evaluate the economic, historical, and political dimensions of climate change from a global perspective. You will also learn about the international institutions and megatrends shaping and constraining the s ...
