ENVS 208 - Environmental Policy

Semester Offered: First Semester
Credits (Range): 3 Hours
Attribute: 3 SS

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 of globalization of all four of these elements: politics, economics, science, and public interest. Enrollment Limit: 25.
Instructor: D. Orr
Prerequisites & Notes

Note: Restricted to ENVS and POLT majors.

Cross Reference/Cross Listing Information
This course is cross-listed with POLT 208.