GEO 205 Principles of Resource Utilization
This course examines theories, conflicts, and crises in global natural resource utilization. We will explore the causes of looming social and ecological threats and opportunities in areas such as global warming, food security, water wars, pollution, biodiversity, inequality, and development. We will evaluate debates over population and scarcity, commodities and institutions, environmental ethics, political economy, and socio-ecological change, and use them to inform our understandings of the promises and pitfalls of proposed personal, cultural, economic, and political solutions to resource dilemmas.
Credits
4