Environmental Studies - ENV S

Introduces students to the built environment from a global perspective and explores the ways in which infrastructural arrangements are shaped by politics, technologies, ecologies, and ideas. Case studies include hydroelectric dams, nuclear power plants, pipelines, electrical grids, undersea cables, roads, bridges, canals, seawalls, and more. Students build on course concepts to research possibilities for ecologically adaptive and resilient cities in the age of climate change.

Prerequisites: Environmental Studies 40 (may be taken concurrently).


ENV S 155
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The Built World: Infrastructure and Environmental Change
Summer Gray 4.9
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14:00 PM - 15:15 PM
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