| source UC Santa Barbara (X) |
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department Environmental Studies (X) |
"Environmental Studies" requires insights from many disciplines, including the social as well as biophysical science and the humanities. This introduction offers an overview of the field, examining both our planet and the ways in which we humans depend on it.
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Provides integration of fundamental science with environmental topics. Includes impacts of human population increase; principles of systems and change, biogeochemical cycles, ecosystems and global climate; energy and laws of thermodynamics; water supply and pollution; toxicology and risk analysis; air pollution and stratospheric ozone depletion.
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An introduction to the relationship of societies and the environment from prehistorical times to the present. The course is global in perspective, and includes history, literature, philosophy, economics, science, and culture as evidence for examining the human social environment.
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Application of chemical principles such as kinetics, equilibria, radioactive decay, and thermodynamics to environmental problems. Environmental problems discussed include global cycles, carbonate chemistry, ozone formation, the structure of the atmosphere, and water pollution. The interactions and consequences of human actions on the chemistry of the environment will be emphasized.
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Students are introduced to shoreline and watershed issues facing the local community by meeting with scholars, researchers, activists, and artists who study coastal preservation, restoration, and related environmental issues. Course includes local field trips, in-class discussions, and elective short-research project.
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Improve students� ability to deal with quantitative aspects of environmental topics by developing skills in algebra, computer use (Excel), graphing, and processing and conceptualizing environmental data by using numerical modeling. Collaborative learning is emphasized.
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A study of principles of ecology and their implications for analyzing environmental problems. Focus on understanding the processes controlling the dynamics of populations, communities and ecosystems. Specific examples emphasize the application of these concepts to the management of natural resources.
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The history of surfing from its Polynesian origins to today's global, commercial, and cultural force, with perspectives from history of politics; economics; science and technology; the developing world; sex, ethnicity, gender; popular culture; and special focus on the environment.
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Analysis of the interrelated social, demographic, economic, political, and environmental crises occurring in Central America from an anthropological perspective. Emphasis on the evolution of contemporary problems, current conditions and future prospects for the region.
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How solar and renewable energy fits with environmental-energy options in both developed and developing nations. Technologies are studied in terms oftheir effects on the physical, social, and biological environment. Demonstrations, field trips, and guest lecturers.
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Focus on two interrelated aspects of human-environment interactions where shortfalls in critical thinking are important - our thinking about human- related "problems and causes" and potential "solutions." Gain feel for seductiveness of common misconceptions and learn why to move beyond them.
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Survey of global environmental problems from antiquity to the present. Topics include demography, agriculture, climate change, disease, and storage of toxic waste.
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Examines the social and scientific impacts of evolutionary ideas from around 1800 through Charles Darwin, the modern evolutionary synthesis, the birth of ecology, and molecular biology.
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Examines history of scientific uses of animals from antiquity to the present. Topics include vivisection, field trials, and the development of drugs and vaccines. Changing ethical ideas about animals, including the relationship between animal rights and environmental ethics, is also considerd.
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An examination through case studies of ecological restoration from a historical perspective featuring the intersection between the historian and the restoration process. Consideration of the definition of natural and cultural resources and historical artifacts.
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Examines the emergence and development of science through an examination of ancient cosmology, medicine, natural history, philosophy, and environmental ideas.
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The interaction of human and animal disease and the environment through case studies, from the Black Death of 1300s to asthma, AIDS and the Ebola virus. "Environment" is broadly defined to include both natural and built environments.
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Discussion of biological, geological, ecological, anthropological, and oceanographiccharacteristics of the Channel Islands area as well as the management andhuman uses of this region. Emphasis on islands and ocean waters off Southern California.
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History of global population growth, with emphasis on developing nations. Its socio-economic effects on a society and factors behind migration. Different views of Malthus, Marx, Boserup, and others and governmental policies to check rapid population growth will also be discussed.
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Introducton to the chemical, hydrological, and biological characteristics of soils, their global distribution, and their response to management. Field and laboratory projects are designed to provide an understanding of soil-landscape distribution, soil morphology, and the physical and chemical properties that influence management decisions.
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Introduction to the chemical, physical, and biological processes that produce soil and influence their management. The morphology, genesis, classification, and global distribution of soil is emphasized. Labs cover field site selection, soil description, sampling, laboratory preparation of soil samples and selected chemical and physical anlyses.
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Focus on learning how to use energy efficiently in accordance with the laws of thermodynamics and in harmony with the environment. Topics include the nature of energy and the fundamentals for a sustainable environmental energy policy.
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Examines sustainability, communities, and urban systems in a global context. Covers impacts cities have on the environmental systems that support them, and explores ways to improve urban systems through technology, policy, and design.
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Climate change and variability due to glabal warming is a critical environmental, social, and economical issue. Course will review the scientific basis of our understanding of climate change and policy responses to the problem including "no regrets" and multiple-benefit responses.
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Industrial Ecology is a philosophical and methodical framework interwoven with concepts in ecology and economics used to aid in understanding of how industrial systems interact with the environment. Capital, energy, and material flows are examined and viewed in cultural context.
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