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“Environmental diplomats should engage in an ethical and philosophical debate when it comes to taking moral actions. Being a 'technocratic' or expert diplomat is not enough vis-à-vis this intergenerational field that requires a sense of moral awareness and responsibility. This moral consciousness must be embedded with the diplomats’ understanding of how their actions can influence future generations as well as predecessors.” 

- Leila Nicolas and Elie Kallab, Effective Forms of Environmental Diplomacy, 2021

The Grace School’s concentration in Environmental Diplomacy is the first university program in the world designed to train future practitioners of diplomacy in this vital field and reflects the fact that the new language of diplomacy is emerging from three terms which are common to all cultures and geographic locations: “clean air,” “clean water” and “arable land.” The Environmental Diplomacy concentration provides a foundation for those who are interested in pursuing multiple career trajectories, including work in international and domestic NGO’s, the foreign service, science diplomacy, community organizing, municipal government and activism. 

Students in the Environmental Diplomacy concentration are required to take six courses from the following list:

Course Title Quarter Hours
Choose 4 courses from the following list: 16
PLANT IDENTIFICATION
INTRODUCTION TO URBAN BIODIVERSITY MANAGEMENT
URBAN ECOLOGY
ECOLOGICAL DATA ANALYSIS WITH R
APPLIED ECOLOGICAL MANAGEMENT PRACTICUM
ENVIRONMENTAL SOIL SCIENCE
PLANT ECOLOGY
CONSERVATION BIOLOGY
ECOSYSTEM ECOLOGY
ANIMAL DIVERSITY
URBAN ECOLOGY
URBAN FORESTS AS SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS
THESIS RESEARCH
SPECIAL TOPICS
SUSTAINABILITY SCIENCE: ENVIRONMENTAL LIMITS, HUMAN NEEDS, & SYSTEMS THINKING
HUMANITARIAN LOGISTICS
URBAN PLANNING
RISKS, HAZARDS AND NATURAL DISASTERS
NATURE, SOCIETY, AND POWER
THE SOCIAL AND POLITICAL LIFE OF OIL
INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS
PRINCIPLES OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AND PLANNING
PUBLIC SAFETY ADMINISTRATION AND PLANNING
ENERGY POLICY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
ENVIRONMENTAL CONFLICTS AND MEDIATED SOLUTIONS
URBAN RESILIENCE AND CLIMATE ADAPTATION POLICY
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT POLICY AND INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS
INTRODUCTION TO ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
ENVIRONMENTAL EPIDEMIOLOGY
SUSTAINABLE URBAN DEVELOPMENT I: PLANNING, POLICY & COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
SUSTAINABLE URBAN FOOD SYSTEMS
SUSTAINABLE URBAN TRANSPORTATION