Description
This course investigates key relationships between natural enviornments and human culture, emphasizing the interrelationships between physical systems, social processes and anthropogenic environmental change. Students will understand the elements of and write an environmental impact study. Topics may include population densities, regional natural hazards and diseases, land use, food production systems (for example, slash and burn agriculture or terraced farming) and sustainability, impacts of global warming and climate change, public lands and resource conflicts, or habitat fragmentation and pollution. Fall and Spring.