A Multidisciplinary investigation of Climate Change

Abstract

It is well established that both Climate Change research and teaching benefit from a multidisciplinary approach. Since the formation of the Earth’s atmosphere there has been a dynamic relationship between the Earth’s climate and the processes, both natural and more recently anthropogenic, taking place on the surface. What cannot be argued is with the dawn of the Agricultural Age humans have been altering the proportion of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. As the linkage between Sustainability and Climate Change act as one of the the most important multidisciplinary issues facing the world today with reaches into virtually all academic disciplines this project incorporates expertise from multiple experts to explore ideas. The twelve separate lectures, each from a different expert, explore both scientific and social issues surrounding issues of Sustainability and Climate Change. In a field where there is no one expert, collating the ideas of numerous experts provides students varying perspectives into the topic not possible from a single instructor. Each lecture is discrete allowing instructors to use as many or few as necessary for their purposes. Topics include Canadian examples where possible but also take a global view.