2016-2017 Catalog

EVST 240 Rural Society Environment

This course considers the relationships between rural societies and the environment, with a focus on the United States. We examine perspectives from within and looking into rural America on environmental topics. Students will use social science theories and techniques to examine pressing, rural social-environmental phenomena, including rural economies, agriculture, natural resource dependence, land use, natural amenity tourism, and community change.

Instructor

Armstrong