ENVST5000

Analyze the role of environmental sustainability in the promotion of comprehensive justice and equity.

Apply critical thinking skills to provide sustainable solutions and build resilient communities.

Articulate a comprehensive world view that integrates diverse approaches to sustainability.

Define sustainability and assess the ways that sustainability topics are approached by a diversity of academic disciplines.

Demonstrate an understanding of comprehensive systemic analysis across both physical and behavioral dimensions involving society, the environment, and the economy.

Identify how globalized processes impact socioecological systems.

Learn how to solve large-scale problems using a multitude of tools and approaches.

Understand the basic sustainability concepts of homeostasis, carrying-capacity, cradle-to-grave recycling, evolutionary processes, inter-generational debt, socio-political adaptation, climate change, ecosystem services, and environmental justiceand understand the relationships between them.

Understand the basic theoretical concepts and methodologies of both the physical and social sciences.

Utilize the appropriate methodological tools to analyze and address specific research questions.