ENST 382 - Sustainability, Climate Change, and Environmental Political Thought

Semester Offered: Spring
1 unit(s)

(Same as POLI 382) Sustainability is arguably the most important principle and practice for the contemporary environmental movement confronted with on-going climate change. This course explores the historical origins of sustainability, its varied and contested meanings, its relations to other leading dimensions of environmental political thought, how climate change impacts the goal of sustainability, and the critics of sustainability. We also analyze how sustainability relates to mass-consumption societies, to democracy, and to the modern state. Peter Stillman.

Prerequisite(s): permission of the instructor.

One 2-hour period.