Current Issues in Ecosystem Science and Biodiversity (ENVS*2330)

Code and section: ENVS*2330*01

Term: Fall

Instructor: Neil Rooney

Details

This course provides an introduction to a range of specific environmental and scientific issues relating to ecological sciences. Issues to be covered include the biology of climate change, forest science and management of terrestrial ecosystems. Three examples of current problems of societal concern will be used as starting points to examine the role of science in addressing them, while developing students' knowledge of the underlying science and its relation to policy and economics.                

Syllabus