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One of the two gateway courses of the ERE Program, this course exposes students to the basics of the global environment in three sections: science and values of the environment, top global environmental challenges, and major solutions. It provides the fundamentals necessary for students to have a broad and accurate understanding of the human-environmental system and its implications for sustainable development policies and actions. It builds the skills of students to gain reliable scientific information and bridge that to human concerns and policy instruments. There will be several integrated guest lectures that cover scientific knowledge essential for policy making, concrete real-world examples, and introductions to multiple SAIS courses on specific environmental topics. First and second year ERE primary concentrators will have seating priority. <a href="http://bit.ly/2a09btj" target="_blank">Click here to see a video introduction for the course.</a> <a href="http://bit.ly/1bebp5s" target="_blank">Click here to see evaluations, syllabi, and faculty bios</a>