ENVS 342 - Political Ecology

Semester Offered: First Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4SS, CD, WADV

Political ecology examines how political, economic, and cultural processes ? each broadly defined ? come together to shape society-nature relations and conflicting ideas about the environment, especially in places around the world where people have strong connections with their biophysical world. With firm roots in several disciplines, but especially geography and anthropology, political ecology characterizes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding environmental degradation and marginalization, conflict over resource access and control, environmental enclosure and conservation, knowledge claims about the environment, and social movements seeking environmental justice.

Enrollment Limit: 18
Instructor: K. Offen

Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
Prerequisites & Notes: ENVS 101