Johns Hopkins University ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY
http://ips.jhu.edu/pub/Environmental-Policy
Overview
The majority of environmental classes are taken at Advanced Academic Programs (AAP), a school within the School of Arts and Sciences that caters to working professionals and adult students. AAP offers a variety of courses on the Homewood campus and in Washington D.C, and additional courses online. Other environmental course offerings are available through the Whiting School of Engineering, Bloomberg School of Public Health, and various Arts and Sciences departments such as the History of Science and Technology. Students interested in Environmental Policy can contact Cindy Parker.
Suggested Classes
420.646 Transportation Policy and Smart Growth
This course examines how transportation policy and decisions can alleviate or prevent problems resulting from urban sprawl. How can transportation decisions and planning contribute to more “livable" urban designs and land use patterns that promote “smart growth"—growth that is environmentally and ecologically sustainable? Students discuss how different environmental media—land, water, and air—are affected by our transportation systems and resulting development patterns, and how the design of transportation systems—the highways, roads, transit systems, and bike and walk paths—can more closely harmonize with nature and provide communities with a better quality of life. A wide range of policy options is examined, from altering the structure of road pricing to redesigning neighborhoods and altering urban form. A number of case studies are examined to illuminate the issues and principles raised in the course.
420.643 Environmentalism: History and Literature
This course looks at the human dimension of environmental issues by framing them within a historical perspective. The purpose is to understand the historical interactions among environmental activists, scientists, and policymakers in order to explore the significance of these past relationships on current environmental policymaking. The course considers early U.S. environmental history but focuses on the post-World War II era and the various institutions of modern environmentalism. The course will examine changing ideas and attitudes toward nature and how these changes influence the shape of emerging environmental policies and the institutions that influence environmental policymaking. Materials include primary and secondary historical texts and significant works from the American literature of environmentalism.
575.742 Hazardous Waste Engineering and Management
The course addresses traditional and innovative technologies, concepts, and principles applied to the management of hazardous waste and contaminated sites to protect human health and the environment. Topics include regulatory requirements; fate and transport of contaminants; physical, chemical, and biological treatment; land disposal restrictions; guidelines for design, construction, and closure of hazardous waste landfills; environmental monitoring systems; management of medical waste and treatment options; management of underground and aboveground storage tanks; toxicology and risk assessment; pollution prevention and waste minimization; hazardous waste generators and transporters; permitting and enforcement of hazardous waste facilities; closure and financial assurance requirements; and RCRA Subtitle C Corrective Action and CERCLA/Superfund/ Bloomfields site remediation processes.
140.371 Energy and Environment in American History
A survey of America's path to becoming the world's largest consumer of energy. Explores American history from the perspective of energy and its relationship to politics, science and technology, diplomacy, and culture from colonial times to the present, with a special emphasis on the meanings and consequences of energy use.
Other Possible Classes
420.614 Environmental Policymaking and Policy Analysis
420.614 Environmental Policymaking
570.493 Economic Foundations for Public Decision Making
570.495 Mathematical Foundations for Public Decision Making
420.661 Strategies in National Resource Management
570.465 Water Resource Development: History and Principles
420.645 Energy Policies and Renewable Energy
570.607 Energy Policy and Plan Models
420.651 Risk Assessment
570.611 Natural Resource Economics
420.654 Natural Resource Economics
570.615 Environmental Law
420.657 Environmental Issues
570.610 Political Ecology
680.738 Water: Conflict, Negotiation and Cooperation
570.659 Environmental Policy Analysis
180.601 Environmental Health
420.611 Principles and Methods in Ecology
180.629 Environmental Law and Policy and the Protection of Human Health