DLESE description of The Physical Environment Under Stress

The theories and case studies presented through lectures and assignments associated with this syllabus are designed to foster a basic understanding of environmental geography and to stimulate a critical perspective on human-derived environmental problems. The course integrates multiple scientific approaches to analyze the link between social processes and environmental degradation. This on-line syllabus offers numerous hyperlinked class notes concerning topics such as ecodynamics, energy flows and biogeochemical cycling, human impact and causal connections, the capitalist economy, human population growth, energy resources, nuclear waste, climate and global warming, soil formation and degradation, food productions, and toxicology. The user may also access assignments that relate to the class text.