School: SSH
Level: Undergraduate
Pre-requisites: None
Instructor: Matvey Lomonosov
Description: The human impact on our larger biophysical environment has grown to the point where we are now living in the ‘Anthropocene’. The Anthropocene is the current geological age during which human activity has become one of the key factors shaping Earth’s climate, ecosystems, and geology. In response, scholars, disciplines, universities, and other organizations have developed subfields, centers, programs, funds, and intellectual approaches to investigate how humans interact with their natural environment. This course will draw on sociological and anthropological knowledge to understand the past, present, and future interactions between the climate and human beings. We will look at theoretical approaches to the human dimensions of environmental change, the influence of development on the environment, and the ways how the understandings of nature and environmental problems are socially conditioned. In the concluding part of the course, we will see how people fight to protect nature and what determines the success of environmental action.
