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3.00 Credits
Listed as BI197B. Three credit hours. N. MARSHALL
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3.00 Credits
A comprehensive theoretical and practical introduction to the fundamental principles of geographic information systems and remote sensing digital image processing. Topics include data sources and models, map scales and projections, spatial analysis, elementary satellite image interpretation and manipulation, and global positioning systems. Current issues and applications of GIS, with emphasis on environmental topics. Students develop and carry out independent projects using GIS. Prerequisite: Sophomore standing. Four credit hours. NYHUS
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4.00 Credits
Listed as Science, Technology, and Society 215. Four credit hours. N.
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3.00 Credits
Listed as Chemistry 217. Three credit hours.
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4.00 Credits
Listed as Economics 231. Three or four credit hours. YU
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3.00 Credits
A comprehensive and interdisciplinary introduction to the process and challenges of developing, implementing, and evaluating environmental policy. The roles of costs and benefits, uncertainty and risks, science and technology, and attitudes and ethics are explored. Historic and contemporary case studies are used to examine major institutions and actors, laws and regulations, incentives and enforcement approaches, and their role in addressing our nation's most pressing environmental problems. Prerequisite: Environmental Studies 118. Four credit hours. NYHUS
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3.00 Credits
Listed as Biology 259. Three credit hours. STONE
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3.00 Credits
How human health is affected by our physical, chemical, biological, and social environments; how we measure the effects of these determinants at the level of the cell, tissue, individual, and population; and how we assess these determinants in order to make regulatory decisions. Topics include basic concepts of toxicology, epidemiology, and risk assessment, as well as specific human health effects of various forms of pollution, radiation, synthetic chemicals, global climate change, and biodiversity loss. Students will conduct a community-wide audit of potential environmental health threats. Formerly offered as Environmental Studies 298. Prerequisite: Environmental Studies 118 or Biology 131 or 164. Four credit hours. N. CARLSON
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4.00 Credits
Listed as Biology 271. Four credit hours. N. TEAM
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4.00 Credits
Global environmental governance and human rights issues at national and international levels, and multilateral conventions and nongovernmental alliances that have emerged in response. Reviews key international processes on human rights and the environment, and assesses some of the global commodity chains that link northern consumers with adverse environmental impacts in far-off places. Examines why some international processes have made significant advances and the role of corruption and poor governance in resource-rich countries. Specific topics include market-based mechanisms in forestry, mining, the international diamond trade, and the sports apparel industry and the underlying philosophies behind principal human rights and environmental organizations. Four credit hours. I. BULKAN
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