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Greening the Economy: Lessons from Scandinavia (Coursera)

How can we live a good life on one planet with over seven billion people? This course will explore greening the economy on four levels – individual, business, city, and nation. We will look at the relationships between these levels and give many practical examples of the complexities and [...]

Oil & Gas Industry Operations and Markets (Coursera)

The oil and gas industry has an enormous impact on all aspects of daily life. Individuals, corporations, and national governments make financial and policy decisions based on the cost, use, and availability of these two natural resources. This two-week course looks at the two most fundamental aspects of the [...]

Natural Attenuation of Groundwater Contaminants: New Paradigms, Technologies, and Applications (Coursera)

Cleaning up the large number of groundwater contamination sites is a significant and complex environmental challenge. The environmental industry is continuously looking for remediation methods that are both effective and cost-efficient. Over the past 10 years there have been amazing, important developments in our understanding of key attenuation [...]

Water and Wastewater Treatment Engineering: Physicochemical Technology (edX)

Learn the basic principles and characteristics of physicochemical technology in water and wastewater treatment engineering. This course mainly talks about the basic principles, process composition, operation characteristics, process calculation methods and some engineering examples of the main physicochemical treatment methods in water and wastewater [...]

A Circular Economy of Metals: Towards a Sustainable Societal Metabolism (Coursera)

Feb 26th 2024
A Circular Economy of Metals: Towards a Sustainable Societal Metabolism (Coursera)
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Metals are present everywhere around us and are one of the major materials upon which our economies are built. Economic development is deeply coupled with the use of metals. During the 20th century the variety of metal applications in society grew rapidly. In addition to mass applications such as [...]

One Planet, One Ocean (edX)

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One Planet, One Ocean (edX)
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A holistic view of how the ocean functions, how human interactions with the ocean can be understood, and what solutions are available to support both sustainable use and stewardship of our blue planet. Is the ocean the real final frontier? Humans have a greater understanding of the surface of [...]

Synchrotrons and X-Ray Free Electron Lasers (part 1) (edX)

The first MOOC to provide an extensive introduction to synchrotron and XFEL facilities and associated techniques. Are you interested in investigating materials and their properties with unsurpassed accuracy and fidelity? Synchrotrons and XFELs count as Science’s premier microscopic tool in scientific endeavours as diverse as molecular biology, environmental science, [...]

Foundational Field Skills for Earth and Environmental Sciences (edX)

This course focusses on the proficiency of fundamental field skills required for most graduate degrees and entry-level jobs in the earth and environmental sciences. The course combines instructional demonstrations and scaffolded learning activities in the New Zealand outdoors. This course focusses on your proficiency of field skills and contextual [...]