Synopsis
Studies of the relations between economic development and environments affecting quality of life, quality of the environment, for the ability to analyze and consciousness forming towards current environmental problems at various levels: local, national, regional and global; also for prompting environmental decision and ethics towards future sustainable development.
Course Description and Objectives
Human beings always have to reconcile the economic development with the demands of ecological integrity.
In other words, there is always a trade-off. The central goal of this course, therefore, is to identify and catalog the current cost of local and global economy/development. Our task is to ensure that the environmental impact is as low as possible, and that we are steadily pushing the impact ever lower.
By the end of the course students should be more informed; more confident in public speaking; and
should, finally, be a more critical, be able to engage in policy discussion, and independent-thinking democratic citizen.