Coupled Social and Ecological Systems

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Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. Resilience-based stewardship of social-ecological systems including range, forest and other natural resources; ecological concepts of resilience, sustainability, ecosystem services and vulnerability; investigation of linkages among social and ecological system components; contribution to sustainability and provisioning of ecosystem services; evaluation of multiple knowledge sources as the basis for adaptive ecosystem management. Prerequisites: Grade of C or better in ECCB 205 and AGEC 105 , ECON 202 , or ECON 203 ; junior or senior classification, or approval of instructor.