Course ID: | GEOG 8260. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 9 hours credit. |
Course Title: | Seminar in Environmental Geography |
Course Description: | Advanced topics and research trends in environmental geography. Specific topics may vary. |
Oasis Title: | SEM ENVIRON GEOG |
Prerequisite: | Permission of department |
Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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Course Objectives: | Exposure through reading of primary literature to prominent
debates in the field of environmental geography. Students will
be expected to develop critical analytic skills and geographic
perspectives on such issues as: environmental policy development
and implementation, human dimensions of global change, scale-
related variation in perspectives on environmental concerns,
geographic variation in social, cultural, and political
perspectives on the environment. |
Topical Outline: | Topics will vary. Examples of relevant themes include:
Environmental history as a context for interpreting the modern
landscape.
Spatial mismatches between environmental processes and policy
development. (Specific foci might include old-growth forest
policies, biodiversity initiatives, restoration ecology,
remediation of threatened or endangered species, ecology of
disturbance and patch dynamics, effects of fire suppression.)
Geographic perspectives on the communication gap between
empirical science, policy development, and land management
strategies.
Geographic perspectives on land-use/land-cover changes,
desertification, biotic response to global warming, federal land
management policies. |