**1. Course Description** This course has been designed to develop the student with in-depth knowledge on environment. It has been developed in order to give knowledge and understanding environment related issues such as climate change and mitigating practices, waste energy management, inclusive development, democracy, human rights, sustainable development and others contemporary issues of environment and public health. This course aims to deal with environment studies in other disciplines as a non credit course in order to provide the student with skills in decision making for the protection of environment.