PLSC 362

Catalog description

Examines environmental issues through an interdisciplinary lens, suited to these issues’ wide-ranging implications. Students will explore perspectives from political science, law, economics, history, the natural sciences, and more. Topics are arranged (first) to introduce key concepts to students from different academic backgrounds; then to examine how actual policies are crafted to meet the complex challenges involved (technical, political, and legal); delve into specific environmental issues from pollution to biodiversity and beyond, emphasizing the “environmental decade” of the 1970s; and finally grapple with climate change, the greatest threat facing civilization today. (Same as Environmental Studies 362.)