MAIN TOPICS
- Principles and policies to safeguard the Planet (a holistic perspective, from climate change and water security to the linkages between environmental, human and animal health).
- Principles and policies for the conservation and the protection of Nature and the Environment.
- Developed and developing countries; Least Developed Countries.
- Geographical and ecological handicaps.
- Natural disasters / human disasters.
- Sustainable development / unsustainable development.

STUDENTS WHO DO NOT ATTEND THE COURSE 2020-2021
1)
Study in the original English version:
- Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, 2006: a documentary - film directed by Davis Guggenheim; the international campaign of the former United States Vice President Al Gore to educate world citizens on global warming and its consequences on the Earth's surface.
- Al Gore, An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, 2017: a documentary - film directed by Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk; former American Vice President Al Gore continues his tireless fight, travelling around the world to train an army of activists and influence international climate policy.

2)
Research to be carried out by Students:
- International fight against climate change and global warming: social and political events, and movements, in Europe, the world, and Italy.
- Greta Thunberg, Swedish environmental activist, and her role.
- European Union "Green Deal".

3)
Study the following book:
The Limits to Growth. Report by System Dynamics Group Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
The message of this book still holds today:
The earth’s interlocking resources – the global system of nature in which we all live – probably cannot support present rates of economic and population growth much beyond the year 2100, if that long, even with advanced technology. In the summer of 1970, an international team of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology began a study of the implications of continued worldwide growth. They examined the five basic factors that determine and, in their interactions, ultimately limit growth on this planet-population increase, agricultural production, nonrenewable resource depletion, industrial output, and pollution generation. The MIT team fed data on these five factors into a global computer model and then tested the behaviour of the model under several sets of assumptions to determine alternative patterns for mankind’s future. The Limits to Growth is the nontechnical report of their findings. The book contains a message of hope, as well: Man can create a society in which he can live indefinitely on earth if he imposes limits on himself and his production of material goods to achieve a state of global equilibrium with population and production in carefully selected balance.

4)
Read two further books, chosen from the list that will be published in the second semester of the course.
It will contain the updated bibliography.