Course Description

With increasing public awareness of the multiple effects of global environmental change, the terms water, energy, and food crisis have become widely used in scientific and political debates on sustainable development and environmental policy. Although each of these crises has distinct drivers and consequences, …
With increasing public awareness of the multiple effects of global environmental change, the terms water, energy, and food crisis have become widely used in scientific and political debates on sustainable development and environmental policy. Although each of these crises has distinct drivers and consequences, providing sustainable supplies of water, energy, and food are deeply interrelated challenges and require a profound understanding of the political, socioeconomic, and cultural factors that have historically shaped these interrelations at a local and global scale.
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Written Assignments
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Sun beginning to rise over salt flats.
Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia. The world’s biggest single deposit of lithium in one of the driest regions in Latin America. Lithium-ion batteries are critical to computers and to the growing industry of electric cars in Asia and the United States. Image by Dimitry B. on Flickr.