Update 1/15/2024
RHM textbook, Environment & Society:
- First half: perspectives: “dominant ways of thinking about environment-society relations”
- there are many more… you will encounter in courses and elsewhere
- shape how people think about and impact the environment
- Second half: perspectives “applied to familiar objects of the world around us.”
- not problems and crises: important
- “An opportunity to break away from the environment as an undifferentiated generic problem, one universally characterized by a state of immediate and unique crisis.”
- the problem with apocalyptic catastrophism & environment
- apocalyptic: “describing or prophesying the complete destruction of the world.”
- catastrophism: “involving or causing sudden great damage or suffering.”
There is good news and the promise of being able to do something…
A generalized process: book, class, class project
- Understand the natural and the socialĀ together from different perspectives
- Understand common environmental objects embedded in natural and social contexts
- Understand how environmental challenges (at a range of scales) arise from this complex context
- Define solutions to these problems
Project Drawdown: which efforts have the biggest impact on climate change and environmental problems? Click on Scenario 1 or Scenario 2 (two levels of impact on reducing CO2)
Scrappy Sustainability –Ā here
Class Project information linked in menu above and here