2010-2011 Academic Catalog 
    
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2010-2011 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

GEOG 179 - Global Environmental Justice

Type of Course: Lecture, Discussion, First-Year Seminar (in alternate years)
Integrates ecology and political economy from local to global scale through case studies. Starts from a view of people in environmental “hot spots,” following links to world economy and planetary ecosystems. Explores connections of international environmental and economic policy with everyday realities and possible ecological futures of people from the Amazon rain forest to the streets of Worcester. Offered as a first-year seminar (fulfills the Verbal Expression requirement) and as a lecture course alternate years.

Cross Listed: GES 179 

Instructor: Ms. Rocheleau

When Offered: Offered every other year

Faculty: Dianne Rocheleau, Ph.D. - Associate Professor of Geography