HISTORY OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE CHANGES

The course aims to ensure that students acquire a critical awareness of the history of environment and climate changes.

In particular, the course aims to make students achieve the following specific learning objectives, according to the Dublin descriptors:

1) Knowledge and understanding.

The students possess the basic understanding of the historical development of the idea of environment and climate change.

2) Applying knowledge and understanding.

The students can address epistemological issues and problems starting from their historical contextualization, opening to the possibility of referring them to contemporaneity and therefore to the understanding and resolution of problems within their own field of study and research, and beyond.

3) Making Judgments.

The students possess the ability to develop their own judgment on the major philosophical themes dealt with and can autonomously interpret the reflections present in the philosophical texts.

4) Communication skills.

The students are aware of how to present and communicate, both orally and in writing, the contents of the course and the critical reflections that start from it, reasoning logically and using the specific vocabulary of the discipline in an adequate manner.

5) Learning skills.

A. History of the environment;

1. History of the environment (2 ECTS)

F. Paolini, Breve storia dell’ambiente nel Novecento, Roma, Carocci, 2009, pp. 1-176.

2. The climate changes (4 ECTS)

E. Casetta, Filosofia dell’ambiente, Bologna, il Mulino, 2023, pp. 1- 224.

A. Iannace, Storia della Terra, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2023, pp. 95-280.

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