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3.00 Credits
Examines existing policy responses to climate change to achieve meaningful CO2 reductions. Specific attention given to possibilities and limits of scientific knowledge and technology in formulating policies to address climate risk.
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3.00 Credits
Examination of the historical and contemporary factors shaping the global food system. Studying processes and practices, such as production and consumption, policymaking, activism, commodity exchange; as well as, actors including states, producers and consumers, farmworkers, farmers and policymakers. Consider how production and consumption are framed and discuss the spatial organization of access to food and agricultural resources through digging into issues related to food justice and food sovereignty on local and global scales.
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3.00 Credits
Examines key linkages between hydrology and ecosystem processes in natural and human impacted watersheds. Topics include water quantity and quality and material source, transport and fate in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, as affected by biotic and abiotic stressors, including changes in land-use and climate. PREREQ: MATH114 or MATH117; and GEOG432 or GEOG632.
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to hydrologic science. Topics include precipitation, snowmelt, evapotranspiration, infiltration, groundwater, runoff, streamflow, water resources management, and hydrologic applications of remote sensing and geographic information systems. Case studies illustrate hydrological response to changes in land-use and climate. Group studies include field measurements and computer simulations. PREREQ: MATH117 or MATH241.
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3.00 Credits
Examines theory and methods for planning for more sustainable communities and regions in a global context in the twenty-first century. Sustainable development is defined and theories of sustainable planning presented that meet goals in the areas of environment, economy, and equity (the Three Es). After discussion of issues central to sustainable planning, course looks at tools and policies for sustainable planning and how planning practices can become more oriented to sustainability.
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3.00 Credits
Study of the unique physics and dynamics of the ocean and atmosphere that occur in polar regions, particularly at the interfaces between atmosphere, ice, ocean and land. Emphasis will be on exploring cutting edge research in these rapidly changing environments. PREREQ: MAST382 and GEOG220 or equivalent.
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3.00 Credits
The nature of geography, its history, methodology and applications in research and societal problems. A pre-professional course.
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3.00 Credits
Develop a nuanced understanding of international and domestic affairs centered on conflict and peacebuilding that influences real-world decisions, through readings, and community and civic engagement activities. Conflicts related to water, ethnic identity, climate change and resources will be explored. Frameworks for peace will be critically assessed and explored as tools to enable discussions around solutions to conflict. PREREQ: GEOG204.
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3.00 Credits
Considers the relationships between environmental and social processes from the theoretical, philosophical and methodological perspectives of geography. Explores the ethical and contextual implications of framing environmental questions and posing solutions. Examines approaches to the geographical analysis of environmental problems.
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3.00 Credits
Impacts of global migration on immigrant-receiving and/or immigrant-sending communities are examined to understand the experience of home. Perceptions, policies and practices contributing to social-spatial exclusion/inclusion at multiple scales are addressed. Project-based fieldwork enables students to gain first-hand knowledge of the experiences of mobility and adjustment. RESTRICTIONS: for juniors and seniors only.
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