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(This information is taken from the Handbook)
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This unit considers the relationship between environmental degradation and human conflict in a range of geographical and cultural settings. Students investigate their personal relationship with nature before exploring the reasons why the environment is being degraded. The unit traces the reasons why individuals in Western industrialised nations have come to see nature as 'other', 'separate' or 'removed' and explores the links between environmental degradation and conflict using the impacts of the anthropogenic greenhouse effect as a case study. We will also highlight some of the contradictions in the concept of "sustainability", and examine new approaches to environmental security, focusing on the issue of peace building through environmental protection at local, regional and internal levels.
2 hours per week
5,000 word essay
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