{"id":17418,"date":"2015-07-20T08:49:15","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T12:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/?p=17418"},"modified":"2025-07-10T10:28:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T14:28:35","slug":"geog-4022-seminar-in-people-resources-and-environmental-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/2015\/geog-4022-seminar-in-people-resources-and-environmental-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Seminar in People, Resources and Environmental Change"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Seminar in People, Resources and Environmental Change\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"geog-4022fall-2015-dr-jamie-brownlee\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">GEOG 4022<br>\nFall 2015, Dr. Jamie Brownlee<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"592\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/108\/clear-cut.png\" alt=\"clear cut\" class=\"wp-image-17420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/108\/clear-cut.png 592w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/108\/clear-cut-160x105.png 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/108\/clear-cut-240x158.png 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/108\/clear-cut-400x264.png 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/108\/clear-cut-360x237.png 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 592px) 100vw, 592px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This course will also examine the efficacy of different responses and solutions to ecological problems, ranging from market reforms and \u2018green capitalism\u2019 to more radical social and economic transformations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"604\" height=\"439\" src=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/108\/new.png\" alt=\"new\" class=\"wp-image-17419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/108\/new.png 604w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/108\/new-160x116.png 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/108\/new-240x174.png 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/108\/new-400x291.png 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/108\/new-360x262.png 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>\nOpen to 3rd and 4th year undergraduates and graduate students.<br>\nPrerequisite(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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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