- Inter-faculty Studies in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
- Bachelor's degree, first cycle programme, Computer Science
- Bachelor's degree, first cycle programme, Mathematics
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Computer Science
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Mathematics
(in Polish) Environmental problems in the United States and in Latin American countries 4030-EPUSLA-OG
1. Thinking about nature; inventing nature;
2/3. Nature and society in indigenous communities. (General approaches; Cases from the North and from the South)
4/5/6/7 An outline of the Americas' environmental history I. Colonial Encounters; wilderness transformed; nature and the market economy; nature and the urban; conservation, preservation, American national parks - history, distribution, values;
contexts: nature protection and tourism; national parks and indigenous peoples, parks and the national imaginary; nature and growth, development, energy, resources - environmental problems of the 20th century - the curse of extractivism)
8. Ecology, environmentalism, American environmental organizations and movements (US); Legal environmental regulations; EPA
9. Sustainability as a new public discourse - theory and practice of sustainability; Critiques of sustainability
10./11 Environmental conflicts in Latin America. Environment within Latin American social movement agenda.
12. Latin American Transformative Initiatives
13/14/15. Climate change and environmental challenges - examples of particularly vulnerable areas, challenges related to their management: (Sustainable cities? large North and South American agglomerations in the context of sustainable development; coastal areas, dry and semi-dry areas, The Amazon, Alaska, Hawaii, etc.)
Type of course
general courses
Mode
Learning outcomes
Knowledge
- knowledge of the inter-dependability of the people and their natural environment and the social, economic and political systems that they created understands the concept of sustainability and its implications in the Americas
Skills
- ability to identify environmentally vulnerable areas of Americas and to describe the features that characterize them as well as the features of the people, who live there and manage them
- ability to notice the meaning and to analyze and critically interpret the environmental and spatial conditioning and consequences of social and economic processes undergoing in the Americas
- ability to use thematic maps
Social competences:
- Openness to various phenomena and ideas; recognition of and respect for cultural difference
- ability to think spatially about environmental issues framing life and landscape in the Americas.
- critical thinking skills concerning issues that affect people and places in the Americas
Assessment criteria
Active, regular participation and weekly tasks on the platform – 50%
Final assignment – 50%
Written final assignment (multimedia enhanced short essay)
Bibliography
Escobar, A., 1992 Imagining a Post-Development Era? Critical Thought, Development and Social Movements, Social Text , No. 31/32, pp. 20-56
Gudynas E., 2018 Extractivisms Tendencies and consequences, in:
Eduardo Gudynas In: Reframing Latin American Development.Ronaldo Munck and Raúl Delgado Wise, eds. Routledge
Klein E., Morreo C.E. (eds) , 2019 Postdevelopment in Practice. Alternatives, Economies, Ontologies, Routledge
Lalander R., 2014 Rights of nature and the indigenous Peoples in Bolivia and Ecuador:
a Straitjacket for Progressive development Politics? Revista Iberoamericana de Estudios de Desarrollo / Iberoamerican Journal of Development Studies
Volumen/volume 3, número/issue 2 (2014), pp. 148-173. ISSN: 2254-2035
Macnaughten Ph., Urry J., 1998 Contested Natures, Sage Publ., [Alternatywne Przyrody. Nowe myślenie o przyrodzie i społeczeństwie, Wyd. Scholar, 2005]
Mayda Ch., 2012 A Regional Geography of the United States and Canada: Toward a Sustainable Future, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Merchant C., American Environmental History: An Introduction Columbia University Press 2007
Additional information
Information on level of this course, year of study and semester when the course unit is delivered, types and amount of class hours - can be found in course structure diagrams of apropriate study programmes. This course is related to the following study programmes:
- Inter-faculty Studies in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
- Bachelor's degree, first cycle programme, Computer Science
- Bachelor's degree, first cycle programme, Mathematics
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Computer Science
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Mathematics
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