The course aims to provide students with a comprehensive, experiential learning of the complex linkages between environmental quality, energy consumption, climate change, industrial competitiveness, and quality of life in Hong Kong and to prepare them to solve local and regional sustainability problems from a global and interdisciplinary perspective.
The course assesses water pollution, waste management, air pollution, sustainable energy, building and transportation, climate change, eco-industry and green service, nature and marine conservation, and sustainable campus in Hong Kong by means of material flow analysis, energy flow analysis, and life-cycle assessment.
The course includes lectures, case studies, in-class debates, field visits, and semester-long team projects focusing on evaluating and prescribing the sustainability of a Hong Kong-based organization or company.
* This GE course will be discontinued with effect from Semester A 2018/19