Course Details
21st Century Thinking: Global Resources and Me
Dates will be avalinle shortly
Personal Interest
Goals
Victoria University Community Continuing Education
Level 2, Rutherford House, 23 Lambton Quay, Wellington City
More Than 1 Week
Tuesdays 6:00pm - 8:30pm
Tuesdays 6:00pm - 8:30pm
$0.00
Do you want to understand the risks and challenges facing our global society? Do you want to focus on solutions?
Over six sessions this course will examine global resource challenges and their potential consequences for the economy, the environment, communities, families and individuals in the next 20 years. The course will help you to build a framework for responding to these challenges in your own life. You'll explore the many solutions and responses that are available and see how they can lower your exposure to future risks, while increasing your quality of life.
Target Audience:
This course will be of interest to anyone who wishes to understand the risks and challenges facing global society this century and wants to focus on solutions.
Learning Objectives:
By the end of this course students will have learned:
* about keystone global resource challenges
* to explore the implications of these challenges for the economy and human wellbeing
* to examine the practical solutions to these challenges that are currently available
* to develop a strategy for prioritising and implementing their own response measures.
Course Outline:
Topics for this seminar series include:
* The relationship between the economy, energy and the environment.
* The growth model for the world economy.
* Escalating demand for world resources (population growth, per capita consumption rates, energy demand).
* The challenges to the future supply of world resources (escalating energy costs, downgrading quality of resource supplies, environmental constraints).
* Economic implications for the world economy and New Zealand.
* Setting the context for building solutions (integrating social, economic and environmental goals).
* Exploring the solutions that are currently available.
* Setting priorities for implementation.
Course Format:
This series of 2.5 hour lectures are held one evening a week over five weeks.
Schedule:
Tuesday, 22 February 2011 6:00pm - 8:30pm Lecture
Tuesday, 1 March 2011 6:00pm - 8:30pm Lecture
Tuesday, 8 March 2011 6:00pm - 8:30pm Lecture
Tuesday, 15 March 2011 6:00pm - 8:30pm Lecture
Tuesday, 29 March 2011 6:00pm - 8:30pm Lectur
Over six sessions this course will examine global resource challenges and their potential consequences for the economy, the environment, communities, families and individuals in the next 20 years. The course will help you to build a framework for responding to these challenges in your own life. You'll explore the many solutions and responses that are available and see how they can lower your exposure to future risks, while increasing your quality of life.
Target Audience:
This course will be of interest to anyone who wishes to understand the risks and challenges facing global society this century and wants to focus on solutions.
Learning Objectives:
By the end of this course students will have learned:
* about keystone global resource challenges
* to explore the implications of these challenges for the economy and human wellbeing
* to examine the practical solutions to these challenges that are currently available
* to develop a strategy for prioritising and implementing their own response measures.
Course Outline:
Topics for this seminar series include:
* The relationship between the economy, energy and the environment.
* The growth model for the world economy.
* Escalating demand for world resources (population growth, per capita consumption rates, energy demand).
* The challenges to the future supply of world resources (escalating energy costs, downgrading quality of resource supplies, environmental constraints).
* Economic implications for the world economy and New Zealand.
* Setting the context for building solutions (integrating social, economic and environmental goals).
* Exploring the solutions that are currently available.
* Setting priorities for implementation.
Course Format:
This series of 2.5 hour lectures are held one evening a week over five weeks.
Schedule:
Tuesday, 22 February 2011 6:00pm - 8:30pm Lecture
Tuesday, 1 March 2011 6:00pm - 8:30pm Lecture
Tuesday, 8 March 2011 6:00pm - 8:30pm Lecture
Tuesday, 15 March 2011 6:00pm - 8:30pm Lecture
Tuesday, 29 March 2011 6:00pm - 8:30pm Lectur
Dr Sean Weaver has over 20 years experience in environmental policy and management in Fiji, Vanuatu, and New Zealand, and is a specialist in solutions to global resource challenges (principally climate change).