Global Ecologies and Sustainable Living

Catalog description

The course focuses on how different societies around the planet interact with their local and global ecosystems: how those natural systems enable and constrain specific cultures and their ways of life; how various cultures impact their natural environments; how humans meet basic needs such as food, energy, water, shelter, and transportation in different locales; and to what degree the ways they meet them are sustainable. Examples of zones for focused study include temperate, arid, tropical, mountainous, and Mediterranean rural and urban regions of the world. GCP Coding : (PNW) (CRI).