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EESC 121 - Environmental Challenges of the 21st Century

1. Describe the nature and magnitude of major human impacts on the global environment and how they affect its ability to support human and economic well-being.
2. Describe the multiple causes of dominant ecological impacts threatening human welfare, including the contributions of technology choices, population size, and behavior.
3. Explain how individual choices result in a tragedy of the commons, and strategies to avoid such outcomes.
4. Catalog a broad array of approaches to environmental problems solving; provide specific key examples for each approach.

1. Explain how social, political, and economic institutions and/or principles intersect with each other.
2. Describe how people produce, resist, and/or transform social, political, and economic institutions/principles.
3. Investigate contemporary and/or historical events/issues from a social science perspective.

1. Discuss multiple dimensions of sustainability, including the scientific, social, cultural, and/or economic.
2. Analyze interactions between human activities and natural systems.
3. Describe strategies taken by individuals, communities, organizations, or governments for mitigating and/or adapting to key threats to environmental sustainability.