Problems of coping and adapting. The study of sociocultural factors affecting marine resource use, management, and conservation. Emphasis on the U.S. experience. Focus on water use, forestry, rangelands, and fisheries. The interrelationship between culture and the environment among a wide variety of human groups.
Second term is individual or group field research.
Field research, group facilitation, simulation, planning, and mediation. Ethics and professional practice. The sociocultural factors affecting health status and disease frequency in human populations. The overall goal is to consider how production processes might be modified or restructured in ways that make them more compatible with the human, biological and physical environment, less demanding of non-renewable resources, and therefore more sustainable. Policy issues associated with a selected problem in human health and disease, food and hunger, or environmental and occupational health.