Doing Economics: Measuring Climate Change
Beginner
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3 Weeks
Free Quick Facts
| Medium Of Instructions | Mode Of Learning | Mode Of Delivery |
|---|---|---|
| English | Self Study | Video and Text Based |
Courses and Certificate Fees
| Fees Informations | Certificate Availability | Certificate Providing Authority |
|---|---|---|
| INR 2436 | yes | Coursera |
The Syllabus
Videos
- Introduction to climate change
- Predicted and potential effects of climate change on lifestyles and the economy
- Measuring temperature changes over long time periods
- Excel: Plot a line chart of global temperatures from 1800-present
- Excel: Visualising the extent of climate change
- Additional reading for Week 1
Reading
- True or false?
Videos
- Climate change: Effects on extreme weather events and temperature variability
- Excel: Make frequency tables to summarise global temperatures in the decades 1950-2020
- Excel: Make column charts to compare temperature distributions
- Excel: Calculate percentiles of a distribution
- Excel: Calculate the mean and variance of global temperatures
- How can we address the effects of extreme weather events?
- Additional reading for Week 2
Reading
- True or false?
Videos
- How carbon emissions in the atmosphere are measured
- Excel: Make scatterplots and calculate the correlation coefficient
- Correlation vs causation
- How can social scientists identify causal relationships between variables?
- Additional reading for Week 3
Reading
- True or false?
Videos
- How much do people value the environment?
- Excel: Green growth accounting
- The challenge of assessing the consequences of climate change on future generations
- Environmental policies and environmental quality around the world
- Excel: Environmental impacts of food
- Conclusion
- Additional reading for Week 4
Readings
- True or false?
- End-of-course assessment