China and the Environment

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China is an environmental disaster. China will save the world. There are many ways to think about China and the environment, but few conclusive answers. Our challenge is to think in the midst of multiple crises unfolding quickly through a tangled web of relationships that constitute environmental problems or solutions. To better understand how the environment in China is imagined, valued, and transformed, we will explore traditional ideas, environmental history and governance, ethnicity, and the aesthetic politics of the urban and rural. We will explore local material changes in energy, food, and forests and their links with global systems. And we will conclude by considering again China's role in the global environmental crisis. Prerequisite: Passing grade of CCSF-SHU 101L Global Perspectives on Society Fulfillment: CORE SSPC or IPC; CORE STS; GCS The Politics, Economy, and Environment of China; Social Science Focus Environmental Studies 200 level course.