Environmental Science & Policy 326 - N. RESRCE/ ENV JUST/ US & GL S

This course will examine the connections between natural resource management and environmental justice in the US and the Global South. We will study the benefits and limits of traditional top-down approaches to the management of forests, land, fisheries, biodiversity, underground resources, water, food, and genomes in different parts of the world. By discussing case studies of environmental justice issues from tar sands mining in Alberta to the impact of biofuels and GMOs on local populations in Mexico, students will question and rethink the management of natural resources. Prerequisite: one upper-level social science course or permission of the instructor. Interested students not meeting prerequisite should contact instructor. Enrollment limit of 12.

Not open to first-years, sophomores