Challenges of Sustainability credit:

3 Hours

An interdisciplinary approach to investigating the meaning and practice of sustainability in the contemporary Earth system. As a consequence, students explore the sustainability of crucial resources - water, soil, energy, mineral and the biota - in the context of the social and environmental systems in which these resources are used, including the moral, physical, ecological, political and economic. Same as GEOL 483 and GGIS 482 . 3 undergraduate hours. 3 graduate hours. Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing, or consent of instructor.