ENVST 3364 - Challenges to Global Sustainability

With the recent upswings in economic, political, cultural, and technological globalization, human societies around the globe are increasingly interconnected in various ways, often unequally. At the same time, forms of globalization pose both challenges and opportunities for addressing the most fundamental sustainability challenges facing the world today. This course provides a multidisciplinary overview of the human causes, environmental and ecological consequences, and potential policy solutions to various sustainability challenges in global contexts.