GEOG 4022
Fall 2015, Dr. Jamie Brownlee
This course critically examines how environmental policies and problems are intimately connected to global capitalism, domestic and international political systems, relations of power and inequality, and the institutional structure of the modern corporation. Specific topics to be addressed in the course include: the growing threat of climate change, tar sands expansion and energy policy, biodiversity and resource extraction, forest and habitat destruction; changes in food and water systems, as well as the capacity and potential of the modern environmental movement.
This course will also examine the efficacy of different responses and solutions to ecological problems, ranging from market reforms and ‘green capitalism’ to more radical social and economic transformations.
Open to 3rd and 4th year undergraduates and graduate students.
Prerequisite(s): GEOG/ENST 3022 and 4th-year Honours standing in Geography or Environmental Studies, or permission of the department. If you do not have the prerequisites, please complete a course over-ride request.