ANTH 423 - Eco Sust & Humanity

Institution:

Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania

Subject:

Anthropology

Description:

Examines humanity's relationships with the environmental cross-culturally. Explores how stories and frameworks created by humans help shape politics, economics, and scientific knowledge across space and time. Considers human interactions with other species, subsistence systems, development, tourism, biodiversity, climate change, environmental disasters, environmental contamination, and energy production, and consumption. Discussion will center on the social construction of nature and different potential paths to achieving sustainability, sustaining our relationships with other forms of life and earth processes.

Credits:

3.00

Credit Hours:

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.commonwealthu.edu/

Phone Number:

(570) 389-4000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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