International Environmental and Resource Management

3 units

Interdisciplinary seminar on prudent management of global environment and resources. Strategy and policy issues and options. Corporate environmentalism; economic globalization and environment. Problems and potential of international treaties; the role of U.N. agencies; resource wars. Population, resources, and environment. Common property resource management. Climate change and energy futures; transboundary pollution; ocean and coastal resource degradation; global deforestation and land degredation; fresh water scarcity. Food security, genetic resources, and species diversity. (Same as U85 IA 445).