Course info

Aims:

Climate change prevention and mitigation requires behavioral change or reconfiguration of behaviors and policies.
The goal of this class is to establish a transformational contact between expertise in geoscience and biological sciences and expertise in behavioral and cognitive sciences on environmental issues, in particular as the ocean and marine biodiversity are concerned.
Themes:
The course 1) Draws from the life sciences and geosciences to understand what has an impact on climate change (i.e., the causal chains);
2) Draws from economics to understand how to regulate and incentivize citizens and firms to go towards what has a positive environmental impact; 
3) Draws from cognitive science to understand the psychological and social side of the needed change (how to understand and change individuals' and groups'; behavior).

Course prerequisites
An interest in the main issues of the course, in particular in brakes to behavioral change on a global scale, and in an understanding of the loops between the physical, biological, and human aspects and roles of the ocean.