Environmental Policy and International Development - Certificate
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Harvard Extension School
Deepen your knowledge of pressing global issues like climate change, resource scarcity, and population growth. Gain a deeper understanding of the policies and solutions needed to address today’s environmental and international development challenges.
KEY LEARNING OUTCOMES
- Understand the environmental ethics in game and wildlife management, natural resource use, water management, biological diversity, fisheries, ocean protection, and agricultural production.
- Analyze the science of climate change, social adaptation of human communities, and diplomacy efforts born out of the Framework Convention on Climate Change.
- Navigate environmental policy, regulation, and legislation, including major environmental statutes as well as common and constitutional laws within the United States.
- Leverage tools for developing sustainable economies, such as economic valuation, value chain, and cost benefit analysis.
- Lead effectively in a variety of organizational contexts using change management principles.
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