Political Ecology

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This seminar focuses on political ecology as a framework and body of work that examines environmental change, particularly notions of degradation, through analyses of complex social, economic, political and ecological interrelationships. Course materials raise and address questions of how people study and have perceived ways in which human societies and various 'environments' shape one another over time, as well as the contexts in which 'development' efforts are constructed, implemented and, sometimes, abandoned.