ENSC 321 Environmental Justice in Global Context Units: 3.00
Examines the socially uneven effects across race, class, gender and nation of environmental problems such as toxic waste disposal, air pollution, climate change, deforestation and environmental disasters and the responses to them from local to global movements, protests and politics.
Learning Hours: 150 (18 Lecture, 18 Seminar, 6 Online Activity, 108 Private Study)
Requirements: Prerequisite Level 3 or above.
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Apply concepts of environmental justice to specific environmental issues.
- Appreciate the contributions of global political economy, global development studies, and social science theories of environmental justice.
- Foreground global and local inequalities as they shape production and outcomes of environmental problems.
- Identify gaps in environmental justice approaches.
- Identify impacts of social equality and conflicts of power in environmental
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