GEOG 427 - Sustainability

Institution:

Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania

Subject:

Description:

This course examines how human society faces the challenges of global environmental change, resource limitations, and environmental degradation. Areas of focus include global change, ecosystems, population growth, environmental economics and policy, energy, water, agriculture, ethics and history. As a naturally interdisciplinary subject, this course will examine both the physical and social science involved with these issues and the various types of solutions that humans will apply to sustainability problems including: technology, engineering, management, and planning. The course will rely heavily on insight and guest lectures from many disciplines as well as applied projects that focus on different areas of sustainability. This course is available for graduate credit.

Credits:

3.00

Credit Hours:

Prerequisites:

BIOL 145 or ESSC 108

Corequisites:

Exclusions:

Level:

Instructional Type:

Lecture

Notes:

Additional Information:

Historical Version(s):

08/15/2018 - 08/25/2024 

Institution Website:

www.ship.edu/

Phone Number:

(717) 477-7447

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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