Geography 302: Environmental Management

Offered Summer 2013. Prof Akman. Downtown campus.

Offered Fall 2012. Prof Meredith. Downtown campus

The object of the course is to provide students with a basis to analyze and evaluate environmental management strategies in Canada. The course begins with an introduction to the concepts of environment and resources. Then, in the remainder of the first section, students review selected case studies that highlight the complexity and uncertainty associated with both the science and management of the environment. In the second section, contemporary approaches and methods used to manage the interaction between humans and the physical environment are studied.Students will discover that environmental management is more than a technical or scientific exercise. For effective, efficient and fair management to occur, one must consider a complex array of issues including human values and behaviours, technology choices, institutional arrangements (e.g., legal, administrative, economic, political) and public participation.

Course OutlineSummer 2013