Focus Area
Sustainability, Resilience, Adaptation, and Climate Change

This focus area prepares planners to understand and creatively address issues related to the long-term sustainability of communities and society more broadly, focusing especially on promoting resilience and effective adaptation in the face of global climate change.

Coordinator: Larissa Larsen

Primary Courses

• URP 527 – Foundations of Sustainable Food Systems
• URP 532 – Sustainability and Social Change
• URP 552 – Healthy Cities: Planning and Design

Secondary Courses

• URP 520 – Introduction to GIS
• URP 522 – Collaborative Planning
• URP 526 – Scenario Planning

Non-URP Courses

A variety of SEAS courses are available, such as:

• EAS 537 – Urban Sustainability
• EAS 550 – Systems Thinking for Sustainable Development
• EAS 574 – Sustainable Energy Systems
• EAS 677.041 – Climate Change Adaptation