Environmental Studies 3420 Environment and Development (Winter 2024)

This course focuses on environment and development issues in an international, particularly a developing country, context. Issues related to trade, biodiversity conservation, agriculture, climate change, wealth, poverty, population, and gender will be explored.

Course Instructor
Carolyn Peach Brown

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Adams, William & David Hulme (2001). Chapter 2. In African Wildlife & Livelihoods / edited by David Hulme & Marshall Murphree. Oxford: James Currey Ltd., pp. 9-23.

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Soroos, Marvin S. (2011). Global Institutions and the Enviornment: An Evolutionary Perspective in The global environment : institutions, law, and policy / edited by Regina S. Axelrod, Stacy D. VanDeveer, David Leonard Downie. Washington, DC : CQ Press, c2011.

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Stiglitz, J.E. (2006). Chapter 1: Another World Is Possible. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2006.

Robertson, M. (2012). "Introduction: The challenge of urban sustainability,Sustainable cities: local solutions in the Global South. Warwickshire, UK: Practical Action Publishing. pp. 1-15.

Dodd, Mark, Hugh Quarshie, Yacouba Sawadogo, David Poore. “The Man Who Stopped the Desert." 1080 Films, 2010.