Although scholars and practitioners now analyze and debate it, sustainable development originated more in pactice than in theory. Powerful global organizations, governments and local activists have adapted and adopted it since it was popularized in the 1987 Brundtland Report, giving rise to more than 40 definitions by 1994. To determine the social usefulness of such a widely debated term, we will examine its evolution from the original eighteenth-century concept of development into sustainable development in the field of natural resource management in the 1970s and into an environmental critique of economic growth, or market society, in the 1980s. We will then debate the salience of this concept by evaluating case studies in the United States and other parts of the world. A first course in statistical evidence in the social sciences, with emphasis on statistical inference and multiple regression models.
Theory is supplemented with numerous applications.
325 Indigenous People and Globalization 3 credits. This course examines processes of globalization and how they affect indigenous people worldwide. At issue are the lands, resources, traditional knowledge, cultural property and tribal sovereignty of indigenous peoples. RS 213 or a statistics course. Enrollment limited to 50.