Introduction to Environment & Climate Emergency

• • Sustainability and planetary emergency
  • Climate emergency
  • Resilient cities
  • Population and development
  • Food in an environment and climate emergency
  • Copying with climate distress
  • Waste in an environment and climate emergency
  • Facts about climate change
  • Planetary health
  • Indigenous knowledge
  • Environment and spirituality
  • Case study of China
  • Responding to disasters
  • Social justice in an environment and climate emergency
  • Energy in an environment and climate emergency
  • Water in an environment and climate emergency

Equivalent subjects

You should not enrol in this subject if you have successfully completed any of the following subject(s) because they are considered academically equivalent:

• CUR-SCP521 (Not currently available)

Additional requirements

• Equipment requirements - Audio/Visual equipment

This subject was previously known as Topics in Sustainability.

This subject enables students to understand, reflect and investigate some of the main sustainability problems (e.g. urbanisation, consumptions, greenhouse gas emissions) that the world faces now and in the future, including the relationships between these issues, and to research and put into professional practice the newly developed knowledge and skill.

Please Note: If it’s your first time studying a Curtin University subject you’ll need to complete their compulsory ‘Academic Integrity Program’. It only takes two hours to complete online, and provides you with vital information about studying with Curtin University. The Academic Integrity Program is compulsory, so if it’s not completed your subject grades will be withheld.

Find out more about the Academic Integrity module.

• Essay 1 (30%)
• Essay 2 (30%)
• Presentation (40%)

Current study term: 27 Feb 22 to 29 May 22

Next study term: 28 Aug 22 to 27 Nov 22