NATURE AND SOCIETY (KSS)

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Environmental studies takes an interdisciplinary approach to studying the environment, with insights from natural sciences, social sciences and the humanities. This course introduces the discipline and explores theoretical approaches to understanding how humans interact with and perceive their environment. It applies these approaches to some of the world’s greatest environmental challenges: climate change, the loss of biodiversity, urban sustainability, food and resource insecurity and the degradation of the physical environment.