The Environmental Studies Programme of the School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences is pleased to announce an intensive five- week block course, ENVI 529 Sustainable Energy.
This interdisciplinary course surveys energy technologies, resources, economics, environmental impacts, and public policies, with an emphasis on renewable energy and energy efficiency for the power, transport, and building sectors.
Comparative assessments among clean energy technologies and conventional fossil fuel technologies lead to analysis of policy options at local, national, and international levels. Options for long-term sustainable energy futures for New Zealand and globally are discussed.
The course is open to all graduate students and graduate working professionals without any course prerequisites. (Working professionals should have a degree from a NZ tertiary institution, or equivalent.
The course meets in the Pipitea campus adjacent to the Wellington railway station, 1-31 March 2010, Mondays and Wednesdays, 13:40-16:30. A research assignment is due by the end of the trimester (early June 2010).
The instructor is Dr. Eric Martinot, an internationally recognized scholar and teacher on renewable energy. He is author of the well-known
REN21 Renewables Global Status Report, which is an annual synthesis of the state of renewable energy worldwide, along with over 65 other publications on renewable energy and energy efficiency, and has taught university classes in both the United States and China. For six years, he worked for the World Bank and Global Environment Facility in Washington DC as a renewable energy and climate change specialist. He also has worked as a consultant to many UN agencies, as senior research fellow of the Worldwatch Institute, and as visiting professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing. He now resides in Japan.
If you would like information regarding enrolment or a copy of the course syllabus please contact the Environmental Studies Programme at VUW, tel. 04 463 6108.
