The climate crisis is one of the most urgent issues of our time, the focus of intense debate and often polarised opinion. Students taking our seminar courses in this field will be able to engage with the complex and nuanced issues surrounding the key debates, whilst the Advanced Tutorial Programme offers the opportunity to delve even more deeply into an aspect of Climate and Sustainability of particular interest.
This course aims to give students the knowledge and tools to analyse contemporary struggles over the environment and place them in their historical context.
This course provides insights into how economic concepts directly impact the natural environment, from the development of international policies to the vast ramifications of single individuals’ choices.
Over the past three decades, humanity has become increasingly conscious that we are changing the climate, and contemporary writers are finding expression for this concern in emergent genres such as cli-fi and ecopoetry.
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What are the best paths towards a sustainable future in post-modern societies? In an era marked by unprecedented ecological crises, the necessity for a sustainable future is at the core of debates within the most important governmental, social, and economic institutions worldwide.
In this course, students will examine and critically analyse the implications of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the 2030 agenda, and explore and debate how these objectives are shaping the reality of post-modern societies.
Transition Bath is a charity dedicated to reducing the harms of climate change and the depletion of nature in our local area. We see a future for our beautiful city that is fossil fuel free, fair and resilient. We aim to achieve these things by running projects aimed at reducing carbon emissions and encouraging the flourishing of the natural habitats in Bath and its surrounding area.
