ENV-330 Working Landscapes
Economic and social geography underlie cultural practices on the land. Through study of global mining patterns, Indigenous land tenure, and the effect of climate change on agricultural patterns, we will examine how economic geography is related to various cultures' sense of place and their knowledge base about the land they occupy. We will also survey landscapes of traditional and industrial land-use practices. Our studies reveal human dependence on the earth’s processes and resources, as well as the ways that climate change affects the distribution and intensity of human resource use.