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Contemporary Environmental Issues

X70 (4 semester units in Environmental Science, Policy, and Management)

An elective in the Certificate Program in Landscape Architecture and in the Professional Sequence in Sustainable Design

The Earth is besieged with great environmental pressures as the human population increasingly depletes the planet's "natural capital." In this course, you gain an understanding of the physical, biological, and ecological processes of the global ecosystem, as well as the human impact from cultural, social, and economic influences that disrupt these processes. You also acquire an understanding of the roles played by government, business, scientists, advocacy groups, and individual citizens in shaping solutions to environmental problems and managing resources.

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DOUGLAS GREENBERG, Ph.D., has taught environmental studies, urban studies, geography, and geology at the University of San Francisco, San Francisco State University, UC Berkeley, and UC Berkeley Extension. He has researched the environmental impacts of urban expansion and studies how human activities have affected natural landscapes, past and present.

• Online course: Internet access required
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• $770 (EDP 867929)

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Textbook(s) for this course:
Environmental Science
Author: G. Tyler Miller, Jr. and Scott Spoolman
Publisher: Brooks/Cole
Edition: 12th
Publication Year: 2007
ISBN: 0495383376

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