Foundations of Environmental Studies II

Catalog description

This course is the second in a two-semester sequence introducing and engaging with the fundamental questions in Environmental Studies, including what defines Environmental Studies as a field, and what shape it might take moving forward. This course is organized around an in-depth examination of specific environmental problems and perspectives, emphasizing the need for an interdisciplinary, integrative, multi-scalar approach to Environmental Studies anchored in robust scientific approaches. This semester will investigate complex environmental problems through a social science and humanities lens. We will cover the public and private governance of complex human-natural systems, including multiple perspectives from which different stakeholders approach the management of environment problems. Topics will also include the economic valuation of ecosystem services and damages, environmental migration, environmental justice and ecological grief.