Geography 693C - S- Climate Crisis

This seminar addresses human geography-grounded perspectives on climate change, impacts, and responses. It provides an opportunity to engage in critical reading, reflection, and discussion about the great moral, political, economic, and environmental challenge of our time, through the lens of political ecology. Political ecology, a key subfield of geography, links a focus on understanding environmental conditions and change with the promotion of sustainability, conservation, and social justice. Reading will range from the writings of Naomi Klein, Bill McKibben, Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway, and Indigenous activists to academic work by geographers and reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the World Bank.