Environmental policy encompasses many different policy issues and levels. In this module, the focus lies on forest and climate policy at a regional, national, EU and global level. These two policy fields lend themselves to discussing the different...
In the past 100 years, the world has faced a period of ever increasing and accelerating global warming and climate change. By overwhelming scientific consensus, one of the major drivers of this development is the human use of fossil fuels...
IES ABROAD’s Global Pillars- Sustainable Living, Equitable Living, and Human Well-Being- Integrate most of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s). The Global Pillars Courses utilize these pillars as a reference framework to adopt a problem...
Sustainability is widely regarded as one of the key challenges facing humanity in the new millennium. Having achieved great success in attaining prosperity for a large proportion of mankind through industrial development, the consequences of...
Be a force for good by participating in our Global Pillars course, “Designing the Sustainable City,” inspired by the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Focusing on sustainable living, this course connects a cohort of students and...
The world is in search of sustainable cities - models of urbanism that can house, educate, and employ a growing share of the world's people, and meet their needs for breathable air, drinkable water, healthy food, as well as safety, community, and...
“All the biggest problems that we face now (…) like global climate change or the pandemic, require collaborative efforts, not just the multiplication of the same sort of person a million times over.” - Peter Galison, founder of The Black Hole...
In this course, students will be asked to identify the most pressing sustainability issues in your host city. Working in small teams, they will design a new housing community that can offer solutions to the issues they have identified at the local...
“All the biggest problems that we face now (…) like global climate change or the pandemic, require collaborative efforts, not just the multiplication of the same sort of person a million times over.” - Peter Galison, founder of The Black Hole...
Today, around 56% of the world's population - 4.4 billion people - live in cities. This trend is expected to continue and the urban population is expected to more than double its current size by 2050, by which time around 70% of the population will...