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4.00 Credits
Prereq: EGEO 363 or permission of instructor. This course introduces students to the assessment of disasters, focusing primarily on the social aspects of disasters. The course deals with the question 'What causes a disaster?'and looks at what, and most importantly, who is impacted during a disaster. The course enumerates a framework that facilitates reducing disaster risk and mitigating the impacts if one occurs. The course focuses primarily on natural disasters, though concepts and methods are generally appropriate for technological and terrorism disasters. The course takes a global perspective on disasters.
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4.00 Credits
Prereq: ESYU 330 or permission of instructor. The course provides students with an opportunity to apply their knowledge and skills in disaster reduction and emergency planning, with an emphasis on community-based approaches. Students will work in groups with a client (or clients) on a quarter- long project of practical significance. Students will be exposed to best practices through case studies across disaster reduction and emergency planning. Project management, client interactions, report writing, and communicating technical information to diverse audiences will be emphasized.
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5.00 Credits
Prereq: senior status, completion of analysis course work within majors or permission of instructor. Objective evaluation and formal description of a real natural system or geographic region. Class preparation of a unified document summarizing physical, biological and social aspects of a study area. Review of pertinent laws and EIS documents.
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3.00 Credits
Prereq: Estu 303 or permission of instructor. Examination of ecotourism as a form of natural resource use that attempts to balance conservation and development. Focuses on ecotourism in terms of ecological principles, environmental impacts and its role in indigenous community-based planning and sustainable development. Offered alternate years.
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3.00 Credits
Prereq: Estu 303 or Esci 439 or permission of instructor. Examination of the history and philosophy of protected area systems worldwide, the role and limitations of parks and protected areas in biodiversity and nature protection, and emerging alternative approaches to conservation. Reviews issues in park design and management, land use trends (particularly in developing countries), alternative land protection strategies and techniques, and concepts such as buffer zones, sustainable use and multiple use. Offered alternate years.
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3.00 Credits
Prereq: ESTU 304 or 464 or permission of instructor. Overview of publicly owned lands (Forest Service, National Park Service, Bureau of Land Management, wildlife refuges, wilderness areas in the United States. Includes administrative history, major players, policy changes over time, administration of these lands, and analysis of current events.
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4.00 Credits
Prereq: Estu 369 or permission of instructor. Land use planning is an attempt to reconcile the fundamental conflict between individual property rights and collective environmental goals. Examines the American legal system's role in framing and resolving this dilemma. Provides an understanding of the legal framework that creates the unique "bottom up" land useregulatory system, in which state and local government share primary authority over most land use decisions. Also examines the practical and philosophical implications of federal constitutional restrictions on local government land use authority including Supreme Court "takings" cases andcases evaluating claims of housing discrimination.
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4.00 Credits
Prereq: estu 301 or 304 or 464 or 468 or permission of instructor. Workshop in which students practice a range of dispute resolution techniques. Students will participate in negotiations, mediation, "round table" discussions and/or otherdispute resolution techniques. Course considers several fact patterns involving disputes over natural resource and environmental issues. Students will study and, in some cases, research the facts and will be assigned roles to represent during dispute resolution sessions. The goal is to provide students with an opportunity to experience at first hand and to analyze the roles, limitations, advantages and disadvantages of different approaches to environmental problem solving.
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4.00 Credits
Prereq: introductory statistics or permission of instructor. Examines how different sectors of the public perceive environmental issues, how they feel about those issues and the implications for environmental policy.
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4.00 Credits
Prereq: ESTU 304 or permission of instructor. Introduction to the policy- making process and environmental policy analysis. Topics include approaches to the study of public policy, policy formulation and adoption, methods for the assessment of environmental policy alternatives, ethics and policy analysis, environmental policy implementation and evaluation, and the utilization of policy analysis in decision making.
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