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Academic Lectures / Courses
New Course! Natural Resources: Conflict & Collaboration, MWF 3:00-3:50, Spring 2017
Department / Organization: LAIS/HE
Learn about natural resources and environmental policy in the American West, with an emphasis on collaborative problem solving and water resources. LAIS 498B/598B, MWF, 3:00-3:50 pm.
The American West is rich in natural resources. It is also rich in landscape beauty and ecological systems. As a result, the West is very rich in contention. It’s not easy being rich.*
This course will examine case studies of conflict and collaboration in managing the American West’s riches (natural resource, aesthetic, and ecological), with special attention to the rise of collaborative governance processes and techniques in recent decades. Students will develop an understanding of how public policy is made, including how public participation and scientific data figure into policy processes. Water resources management will be emphasized. Additional topics will range from energy development to the governance of public lands.
Course is open to all CSM students in need of an upper-level LAIS class. Course will count as a 400-level H&SS Elective OR as an Area 1 course for Humanitarian Engineering students. Graduate students are welcome to enroll under LAIS 598B.
*“It’s not easy being rich” quote adapted from What Every Westerner Should Know About Energy, 2003, Center of the American West.