Learning Outcomes:
Students successfully completing the module will:
1) Acquire an understanding of social dimensions of climate change and engage with key concepts, debates, and issues;
2) Display competence in interpreting and analysing theoretical, methodological and empirical work on social dimensions of climate change from an interdisciplinary perspective;
3) Reflect and critically analyse social dimensions of climate change;
4) Identify key issues and consider possible solutions from a comparative and global perspectives.
Indicative Module Content:
Global Responses to Climate Change will cover the following topics from an interdisciplinary and comparative perspective:
• Concepts, sociological theories and social dimensions of climate change;
• Environmental inequality;
• Global governance, policy approaches and climate change (including SDGs);
• Climate-induced migration;
• Social movements and social acceptance;
• Climate change, pollution and health;
• Consumerism, consumption and waste;
• Climate change and ‘green technologies’;
• Sustainability;
• Social life cycle assessment (sLCA).