Special attention to the western United States. Relationships between environmentalism, environmental problems and racial-ethnic minorities. Rise of environmental justice movement. Assessment of social science methods used to investigate these relationships. Evaluates the causes, effects, and responses to international environmental disasters.
Emphasis is on contemporary case studies in a theoretical context.
Emphasis on Southern California's coastal region. Laboratories provide experience with computer processing of geographic information using several GIS software and programming languages. Supervised, individual studies. No more than one registration permitted. Enrollment by petition only.