ES 402

Global Issues in Sustainability

Units: 1.5, Hours: 3-0

Concepts of sustainability, development and security and their global dimensions; global environmental threats and their sociopolitical implications. Sustainability and development strategies in a north-south context; the role of international agencies in development; global issues of population, energy and resources; international regimes for environmental conservation; war and environment.

Note: Credit will be granted for only one of 402, 420, 400A (if taken in 1989-94).

Formerly: 420

Prerequisites: 200 or 300A, and 301.

Undergraduate course in Environmental Studies offered by the School of Environmental Studies in the Faculty of Social Sciences.