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Course Schedule - Summer Semester 2024
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EEPS 234 701 (CRN: 31462)
CLIMATE ECONOMICS
Long Title: CLIMATE CHANGE, ECONOMICS, AND THE WINE INDUSTRY: APPLIED ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEM SOLVING FOR THE 21ST
Department: Earth/Environmnt/Planetary Sci
Instructor: Dee, Sylvia
Meeting: 1:00PM - 4:30PM MTWR (6-MAY-2024 - 24-MAY-2024)
Part of Term: Summer Paris 1
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory
Language of Instruction: Taught in English
Method of Instruction: Face to Face
Credit Hours: 3
Course Syllabus:
Course Materials: Rice Campus Store
Restrictions:
Must be enrolled in one of the following Level(s):
Undergraduate Professional
Visiting Undergraduate
Undergraduate
Must not belong to one of the following Cohort(s):
Fall 2024 UG New First Time
Fall 2024 New UG Transfer
Section Max Enrollment: 0 (permission required)
Section Enrolled: 14
Enrollment data as of: 19-SEP-2024 5:36PM
Final Exam: No Final Exam
Description: Wine has been produced throughout the subtropics for thousands of years, and is a pillar of the international dining, leisure, and tourism economies. Climate change is altering weather conditions at wineries whose grape production is critically sensitive to seasonal microclimates. This poses a major threat to the wine industry, but also offers opportunities for targeted adaptation. Wine grapes are sensitive not only to climate, but to soil type and health, bedrock geology, and shade (or terroir - all the environmental factors that influence grapes). To adapt and maintain wine economies in France and worldwide, wine makers require high-resolution seasonal climate predictions coupled with geospatial mapping linking grape production and terroir. Themes, Learning Outcomes: This course will immerse students in an environmental problem solving challenge, working in teams to identify climate change ‘choke points’ for wine makers. This highly interdisciplinary course will introduce concepts from climate change to microeconomics, using the wine industry as a case study. This course will take place over a three week period during Rice Global Maymester.