While the Environment & Sustainability major offers three tracks, there are a number of courses that are required for all majors that students can take in their first and second years. These courses ...

Successful economic development has been an elusive target in many countries of the Global South. Considerable intellectual effort has been spent on this issue over many decades with mixed results. A ...

The objective of this course is to provide you with an introduction to the Earth’s climate system and patterns of world vegetation. We will emphasize the many linkages and feedbacks between the ...

Which human activities are changing our climate, and does climate change constitute a major problem? We will investigate these questions through an introduction to climate processes and an exploration ...

Marlee Grimm of Geneva is not quite 3 years old, but you get the feeling she would rather play with fish or frogs than dolls. “This is the first time we’ve come out to this event, but my dad has ...

Nationally and globally economic growth is not solving the problem of poverty. What other approaches can be recommended. A conference to discuss this question included William Rees, Herman Daly, Wes ...

The minor in environmental studies is an interdisciplinary minor that blends coursework from a variety of academic fields to look at the environment, natural resources and energy use. In the ...