SOC 3486 - Global Environmental Crisis

In this course we will engage some of the most central topics in comparative environmental sociology. The course will include a balance of theoretical and empirical works on topics including the origins of environmental sociology, transnational environmental justice research, competing perspectives on economic growth and the environment, international political economy and the environment, world society and the environment, structural human ecology, and the challenges of international environmental policy development and implementation. Students will critically evaluate important written works on these and other topics, and will conduct their own comparative research project on a topic of relevance to environmental sociology.