Worcester Polytechnic Institute
MS in Community Climate Adaptation
STEMFormat
Full timeDuration
24 monthsTuition fee
48300 USDThe Community Climate Adaptation MS degree program is a collaborative, research-based, joint-degree program offered through WPI'sDepartment of Integrative & Global Studies (DIGS)and theDepartment of Civil & Environmental Engineering (CEE). Students in the program will work within teams to use engineering, social science, and physical and biological science skills and expertise to address challenges of climate change impacts and capacities to adapt in communities around the world.
Climate change is one of the Global Grand Challenges of our time. This problem doesn't separatewell into silos; rather, climate change is perhaps best understood as an intensifier of a great number of existing problems. Communities from Worcester to Cape Town, and from Melbourne to Venice, are developing plans to help protect people and infrastructure from the impacts of a changing climate.
From the Indian Himalaya to the Arabian deserts and from Icelandic glaciers to the Costa Rican cloud forest, the changing climate impacts each corner of the globe andis expanding many familiar community challenges to a scope and intensity unprecedented in historic memory.