Qualitative Methods for Environmental Studies

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Introduces students to theories and practices of qualitative knowledge production, with a focus on understanding environmental problems from an inductive and phenomenological perspective. Students learn to conduct interviews, take field notes, and analyze documents while drawing on a variety of methodological approaches, including case studies, narrative analyses, ethnographies, and participatory action research studies. The aim is to critically examine how environmental problems are framed in order to foster change.