Geography 497C - ST-Climate Crisis

Fall
2016
01
3.00
Stanley Stevens
TU TH 10:00AM 11:15AM
UMass Amherst
79165
This course is an introduction to the political ecology of climate change, response, and justice. It provides an opportunity to engage in critical reading and discussion about the great moral, political, economic, and environmental challenge of our time. We will explore climate crisis narratives;mitigation, adaptation, and climate justice issues; policy and social/economic reform debates; and climate activism. Reading will range from IPCC reports to work by Bill McKibben, Naomi Klein, and Indigenous activists.
This course is open to Geography majors only. Open to Geography majors only. Others by permission of instructor.
Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.