This course focuses on a closely linked set of issues related to people and the environment. The aim is both to understand the mechanisms that create environmental problems and to examine potential solutions or mitigation strategies.
Geographers are skilled in studying the interaction of natural, physical and social processes.
The application of these skills to the understanding of environmental problems generate valuable information that societies need to determine how to foresee changes and how to mitigate or modify them. Specific case studies are chosen to illustrate the relationship between people and the environment at scales ranging from sub-regional to global. The World Resources Institute. World Resources 1994-95 . Oxford University Press.