Classes

ERS 225 - Gendering Environmental Politics

Semester: 

Winter

Offered: 

2018

This course provides students with the tools to analyze gender and other forms of social difference in the context of environment and resource issues. Drawing from case studies from around the world, this course looks at the ways in which gender, race and class shape access to resources, influence resource management and extraction, and create precarious working and living conditions. This course also examines how governance, policy, and resistance politics can be used to create social and environmental change. Students will become familiar with the concept of intersectionality, and how it...

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ERS 404 - Global Environmental Governance

Semester: 

Winter

Offered: 

2018

Our contemporary environmental crises do not operate in a political vacuum. Though efforts are made at all levels of society to address environmental issues, all levels of government and modes of governance face competing demands and influences. This course begins to unpack the various power centres at which environmental issues are governed – both formally and informally. Students will learn about conventional sites of state-based government and the roles of intergovernmental organizations and agencies. Students will also learn about informal governance, private governance and the role of...

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ERS 100 - Foundations: Environment, Resources and Sustainability

Semester: 

Fall

Offered: 

2017

This course provides the theoretical foundations for studying in the School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability. The course emphasizes the need to understand how we can use social and natural sciences to understand and solve environmental and resource problems in sustainable ways. Students will also learn foundational skills for research in SERS, including field research, library research, and evaluating and interpreting data.

 

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