Environmental Sustainability: A Global Dilemma
Environmental Studies and Sciences · 3 hrs Lecture
Offered: Fall, Winter and Spring, Every Year
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Description
This course focuses on environmental factors relevant to understanding and implementing sustainable development. Its aim is to teach students to understand and appreciate fundamental ecological principles within the context of social values and technological constraints. Moreover, the course seeks to equip students to assess environmental problems from an interdisciplinary perspective, and to develop strategies that might solve these problems. Topics or issues that may be addressed include: ecosystem dynamics; feedback in environmental processes; the concepts of carrying capacities and population thresholds; optimum yield theory; loss of biodiversity; overconsumption and overpopulation; deforestation, desertification and pollution; energy demand versus supply; urbanization trends; global warming; ozone layer depletion; resource management, conservation, and recovery; and environmental monitoring and impact assessment.
Requisite courses
ENV-1600 or IDS-1100 or permission of the instructor [prerequisite(s)].
Restrictions
Students may not hold credit for this course and IDS-2603.
Cross-listed
IDS-2603(3).
From the 2026-27 undergraduate calendar. Always verify details on WebAdvisor or with an academic advisor before registering.