| Course ID: | LACS(SOCI) 4211/6211. 3 hours. |
| Course Title: | Environmental Justice in Latin America and the Caribbean |
Course
Description: | An introduction to environmental issues in Latin America and the Caribbean, with an emphasis on how capitalist expansion, patriarchal structures, and white supremacist ideologies are linked to environmental degradation. We will review theories on environmental issues and apply them to the analysis of environmental problems in specific ecosystems. |
| Oasis Title: | Environmental Justice in LACS |
| Pre or Corequisite: | LACS 1000 or LACS 1000E or LACS 1000H or SOCI 1101 or SOCI 1101E or SOCI 1101H or permission of department |
Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. |
| Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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| Course Objectives: | - Gain an understanding of the theories that have been developed to understand environmental problems in Latin America and the Caribbean
- Learn about the intellectual traditions and the scholarship emerging from Latin America and the Caribbean about environmental issues
- Achieve an overview of the main environmental problems affecting contemporary societies in Latin America and the Caribbean, including their ecological, cultural, political, and economic dimensions
- Complete a research project to better understand a specific environmental problem and how it affects a specific country, region, or people |
| Topical Outline: | - Social science and humanities perspectives on the environment
- Latin American and Caribbean scholarship on environmental issues
- Indigenous peoples, indigenous perspectives, and the environment
- Air, water, and land pollution and environmental health
- Agricultural production and its environmental impacts
- Biodiversity and conservation
- Environmental politics and environmental governance
- Neoliberalism, neo-extractivism, and environmental problems
- Global warming and climate justice
- Ecotourism
- Social movements and protests about environmental justice
- Environmental inequalities in Latin American and Caribbean cities
- Sustainable development
- Environmental issues in Mexico and the Central American bioregion
- Environmental issues in the Caribbean basin
- Environmental issues in the Andes and the Altiplano
- Environmental issues in the Amazon
- Environmental issues in the Gran Chaco region
- Environmental issues in the Pampas and grasslands
- Environmental issues in Patagonia |