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This course provides an introduction to the emerging new field of ecological economics. Areas of focus include "local economies" and the appropriate scale of the economy in relation to the environment, the role of discount rates in mediating intergenerational and interspecies equity, environmental valuation, full-cost accounting, environmental risk assessment, alterative environmental policies, and the application of thermodynamic and ecological principles in economic analysis.

Examines how geographers design and carry out research, and the different philosophical bases for creating geographical knowledge. A range of approaches will be covered, including research in qualitative human geography, quantitative human geography, and physical geography. PRIOR TO FALL 2014: Course credit exclusion: AP/GEOG 3740 3.00.

This course begins with lectures on field research methodology. The second phase concentrates on defining a field problem, leading to data collection in the field. The final part of the course deals with data analysis, and reviews methodological implications. Includes lectures, seminars and workshops, and a three to four day field trip.Prerequisites: Students must be registered as Honours majors in Geography or Environmental Science and must have successfully completed AP/GEOG 2420 3.00 and one of AP/GEOG 2400 6.00, AP/GEOG 2500 3.00 or AP/GEOG 2600 3.00; or permission of the Instructor. Course credit exclusions: SC/MATH 3330 3.00, AP/GEOG 4540 3.00 (prior to Fall 2012), SC/GEOG 4540 3.00 (prior to Fall 2012).

This course investigates conservation issues in Canada from a political ecology perspective, charting the history of the conservation movement along with some of the most pressing contemporary conservation issues unfolding within Canada including the social, economic, and political geographical processes and contexts from which they have emerged. We will ground our study of these issues by examining a number of conservation-related controversies and projects unfolding in the GTA. This will enable us to better understand how Canadian conservation issues play out within our own communities, both historically and today, how local conservation issues reflect national and global geographical processes, and the innovative ways local groups are working to address these issues. Prerequisites: EU/GEOG 1000 6.00 and 54 credits successfully completed or written permission of the instructor.

This course surveys Black geographies worldwide, with a focus on the Americas. The course covers a diversity of landscapes, past and present: voluntary and forced migration, displacement, segregation, activist occupations, and rural and urban geographies. Taking a critical and feminist approach, the course emphasizes both how racial hierarchies are created and maintained through spatial orders and how Black communities and individuals have always been agents and place-makers.

This course will be offered in partnership with the City of Toronto and all 8 Toronto-area universities and colleges. Its purpose is to introduce pertinent social, environmental, economic and political challenges faced by communities in the city of Toronto and learn about possible policy responses by providing students with access to and information from senior city hall urban policy makers.

Geographical perspectives on the physical processes behind extreme natural events (volcanoes, tsunami, tornadoes, hurricanes) and their impact on people. Many case studies and the literature will be used to understand how physical geography impacts human activities and settlements. Prerequisite: AP/GEOG 2600 3.00 or SC/GEOG 2600 3.00.

This course deals with the historical-geographical specificities of South Asia that are products of its own internal economic-political evolution and physical environmental context as well as of its historical and contemporary linkages to other parts of the world.Prerequisites: 54 credits successfully completed, including at least one of AP/GEOG 1000 6.00 or AP/GEOG 1410 6.00 or AP/SC/GEOG 1400 6.00, or written permission of the course director.

Course credit exclusions: None.

Prior TO FALL 2009: Prerequisites: 54 credits successfully completed, including at least one of AS/GEOG 1000 6.00 or AS/GEOG 1410 6.00 or AS/SC/GEOG 1400 6.00, or written permission of the course director. Course credit exclusion: AS/GEOG 3710 3.00.

This course critically examines the changing geography and depletion of Africa's resources from the precolonial to the present, with an emphasis on current events. The course covers a range of topics, including agriculture, natural resource extraction, migration, the slave trade, and AIDS.

This course examines political, economic, cultural, and environmental change in Asia-Pacific societies (such as China, Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, and the Philippines). Emphasis is placed on understanding both historical and recent experiences in the context of regional and global processes. A consistent theme will be to identify the people and places who are the winners and losers in ongoing transformations.

Examines the geographies of productive and reproductive labour at multiple scales, including global, national, regional, urban, domestic and personal.

This course critically examines cities and urban futures within the context of a digital world. Students engage with the concept of “having the world at your fingertips” by problematizing platform urbanism and the digitization of everyday life. The course provides students an in-depth understanding the imaginary of the smart city as a strategy to improve the competitive positioning of cities in the digital age of city-building. The solutions couched in this techno-utopian imaginary are spatialized and packaged as edgy and ultra-connected visions that fuse the digital layer with urban development or as scientific tangible initiatives aligned with development goals of resilience, innovation, and sustainability. Students investigate different interventions that can contribute to more inclusive and just urban futures

This course examines how capitalist processes of urbanization have produced urban space and created the conditions that shape the future of cities under climate change, including the possibilities to contest, imagine, and pursue different urban futures. It explores these uneven processes in an interdisciplinary fashion, combining theoretical perspectives on the production of urban space, urban climate governance, social movements, and climate justice using case studies drawn from across geographical contexts, with a strong focus on cities in the Global South.

Prerequisite(s) Third or fourth year standing or by permission of the Course Director.

This course explores the natural and physical systems of the city, focusing on the climate, water, geomorphology, biogeography of the urban landscape, including its built environment. Course credit exclusions: None. PRIOR TO FALL 2000: Course credit exclusion: AS/GEOG 3900 3.00.

An independent piece of research done under the supervision of a faculty adviser. The thesis must be submitted before the end of classes in the winter term; an exact date is established each year. There is an oral examination on the Honours thesis. One lecture hour per week at the beginning of the course. Prerequisite: 84 credits passed.

The Environmental Studies placement course is an experiential education program designed to provide EUC students with the opportunity to apply their classroom learning in a workplace environment. Through these placement opportunities, students will gain confidence in field-related knowledge, general employability skills, and valuable work experience. Students must fulfill pre-course requirements in order to enroll in the course. Enrolment will be by permission of the Course Director and students will be graded on a pass/fail. The course is required for completion of the Community Arts Practice Certificate (CAP).