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所在平台: Coursera |
课程主页: https://www.coursera.org/learn/climate-change-sustainability-and-global-public-health
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课程名称：气候变化、可持续性与全球公共健康 课程概述：本课程是“环境对全球公共健康影响”专业中的第三门课程，将介绍当今世界面临的两大环境健康挑战。首先是气候变化——当今公共健康面临的主要威胁，它将影响到地球上的每一个人和生态系统。我们将评估气候变化的原因和影响，以及减少气候变化对人类健康影响的政策和方法。其次是可持续性，这一概念可应用于减少人类活动对环境和人类健康的影响。我们将探讨不同的可持续性框架，以及不同能源生产方式对环境和公共健康的影响。 课程大纲： 第一周：气候变化影响 本周我们将进行课程和学习社区的介绍，然后开始探讨当今人类面临的最重要挑战：气候变化。让我们了解气候变化如何影响我们的环境，以及我们可以采取哪些措施来应对这一挑战。 第二周：应对气候变化 气候变化不是谣言或理论。尽管对这一问题有不同的政治观点，但科学证据确凿：我们的气候正在变化，且变化不利。真正的挑战是识别和实施应对气候变化的措施。本周我们将讨论当今、未来能够采取的缓解和适应气候变化的方法。 第三周：可持续性 能源使用和消费对气候变化有负面影响。解决之道在于开发可持续的能源资源，并将可持续实践融入我们的日常生活。本周我们将了解如何实现这一目标。 第四周：气候变化案例同行评审作业 在本课程中，我们了解到气候变化是对公共健康的主要威胁，对各个层面产生重大影响，并且我们需要在生活中增加可持续性。现在，您有机会与同伴一起评估旨在减少气候变化对人类健康影响或提高可持续性的政策或法规。本周我们将进一步探讨这一内容——课程的最后一周。
Name:Week 1: Impacts of Climate Change
Description:Welcome to Week 1! We start this week with an orientation to the course and our learning community. Then, we start our course by covering what is arguably the most important challenge facing humankind today: climate change. Let’s find out how climate change impacts our environment and what we can do about it in the Week 1 module.
Name:Week 2: Responding to Climate Change
Description:Climate change is not a hoax or just a theory. Despite the different political views on the subject, the scientific evidence is conclusive: our climate is changing, and not for the better. The real challenge is identifying and implementing responses to climate change. In other words, what could be done today, what can be done tomorrow, and what can be done in the future? Let’s find out how we can mitigate and adapt to climate change, and more, in the Week 2 module.
Name:Week 3: Sustainability
Description:Energy use and consumption have adverse impacts on climate change. The golden solution is to develop sustainable energy resources and incorporate sustainable practices into our daily lives. Let’s find out how to do so, and more, in the Week 3 module.
Name:Week 4: Climate Change Case Peer-Review Assignment
Description:We have seen throughout this course that climate change is the preeminent threat to public health, with substantial impacts at all levels, and that we need to increase sustainability in our lives. Now, with your peers, it is your opportunity to develop the skill of evaluating policies or regulations intended to reduce environmental impacts on human health from climate change, or to increase sustainability. Let’s find out more about this in the Week 4 module - the last of the course.
The third course of the Impacts of the Environment on Global Public Health specialization will introduce you to two major environmental health challenges facing the world today. The first is climate change –the preeminent threat to public health today, and a threat that will impact every human and ecosystem on the planet. We will evaluate the causes and impacts of climate change, as well as policies and approaches that can be used to reduce the impacts of climate change on human health. The second is sustainability, a concept that can be applied to reduce the impacts of human activities on the environment as well as human health. We will explore different sustainability frameworks, as well as the effects of different energy generation sources on the environment and public health.
