Course Description
Ecological issues of conservation and development.
Athena Title
Persp on Conserv Sust
Semester Course Offered
Offered fall
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student learning Outcomes
- Graduate students interested in conservation will be exposed to a diversity of conservation perspectives.
Topical Outline
- conservation of endangered species through biomonitoring, natural history studies, development of habitat conservation plans
- applications of science to management and policy
- restoration ecology
- global warming and carbon sequestration projects
- environmental ethics
- conservation and urban environments
- coastal conservation and management
- how ecological research can help mitigate environmental disasters
- land-market responses to conservation
- the role of botanical gardens in conservation
- effectively combining social and ecological science to address conservation issues
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