Introduction to Sustainability Science

This course consists of three general sections. The first section will focus on the science of sustainability and its implementation locally, regionally, nationally, and globally. Complex topics such as sustainability resist simplistic, reductionist analyses and, instead, require sophisticated, interdisciplinary thinking and creativity. As a result, we will have a variety of visitors/guest speaker this semester who will approach the topic of sustainability from a variety of perspectives. Next, we will cover some traditional natural resource management topics (the historic focus of ESRM 200). The end of the course will consist of small group proposals for projects that will make our CI campus more sustainable and which are implementable here on campus.