ENVR 410: Environmental Security

Number of Sections: 1 | Days and Times: M&W (17:10-18:50 ICT)

Course Description

A key aim of this course is to consider why and how the environment is currently understood as an issue that requires security. The urgency of environmental security concerns implies catastrophic futures that hold irreparable damage and disruption for our contemporary ways of life. Securing the present against these potential dystopian futures involves practices and policies that can reinforce and extend existing imbalances in geo- and bio-political power and the value attached to different forms of life. It also has implications for identity, citizenship and appropriate ways of interacting with ‘nature’. The framing of these issues forecloses alternative ways of imagining the future, our relationships with nature and each other, and of acting to make these futures possible.

Prerequisites: POL 100 or similar