Humans and Biodiversity

Harvard FAS

Human histories of land use, migration, trade, agriculture, resource use, knowledge, governance, and stewardship are deeply embedded in contemporary biodiversity patterns, yet these dimensions seldom included, or overly simplified in, large-scale biodiversity models of where nature occurs. This seminar will explore the conceptual, empirical, and methodological foundations of through close reading of the primary literature. Rather than functioning as a lecture course, the seminar will be…