PLANTS AND ENVIRONMENT
Program
Updated A.Y. 2020-2021
Course Description
Our planet is quickly changing. Also climate is changing. In the last decades, the human population has
been growing up and its require of energy, food and space has been increasing. Can plants help us?
How?
The course will deal with the relation between climate, plants and man. The risk and the consequence
due to climate changes on vegetation and flora.
The IPCC report and the Document on Care of our common house will be used for the course.
According to the recent guidelines of WHO, also air quality in urban area will be considered.
Which impact on human health? How to mitigate effects of air pollution and climate change in urban
environment?
Possible strategies and innovative methodologies and policy. To provide students a common
knowledge of the biological life dynamics and relationship with human presence on earth.
Find more information in the Syllabus