Reshaping Environments (ENVS10002)

This subject explores how environments shape us and we humans reshape the environment. It examines human attitudes to, impacts on and interactions with the environments in which we live by considering ‘natural', transformed and built environments as sites of production and consumption, imagining and contest, in different parts of the globe.  Historic, contemporary and geographically varied examples expose human demands for water, energy, food, fibres and minerals allowing comparisons across space and time as well as investigation of drivers and processes.  The subject prepares students to critically engage with wicked environmental problems of the 21st century through a transferable collection of conceptual frameworks including sustainability, systems thinking, environmental ethics, scale, interdisciplinary, needs and norms.  Students are facilitated to have sustainability-based learning experiences off campus.