ENVS 208 - Environmental Policy

Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
Credits (Range): 3 hours
Attribute: 3SS

Humans modify natural and built environments. Environmental policy is the attempt to regulate the consequences and scope of such changes. From antiquity rules governed land use and resource exploitation. Today elaborate institutions function as the place where political and economic power intersects with environmental science and the public interest. Our focus will be this intersection in the United States in the context globalization of all four of these elements: politics, economics, science, and public interest. Enrollment Limit: 25.
Instructor: C. Fortwangler
Prerequisites & Notes
Note: Restricted to ENVS and POLT majors.
Cross List Information
This course is cross-listed with POLT 208.