Transfers ToUC and CSUCal-GETC Area 4 · IGETC Area 4H · CSU GE Area D8DescriptionCal-GETC Area 4 (Social & Behavioral Sciences) Satisfies Global Citizenship This course examines environmental politics, including, but not limited to the issues of population, natural resource use, habitat loss, global climate change and pollution. The political, economic, and social origins of environmental change and degradation are examined, as well as democratic, bureaucratic and market-based solutions to environmental problems advocated by environmental movements, interest groups and political parties. Arguments for best public policy responses to a range of environmental problems will be assessed and debated. The course offers a practical problem-solving approach which includes local, state, national and global environmental politics. Course content focuses primarily on political concepts, such as sustainable development and ecological democracy, and on the relations between a range of contemporary political values and the environmental policy recommendations of each. The course explores various perspectives on what it means to take political responsibility for reducing the human impact on the earth. ENVRN 22 is the same course as POL SC 22. Students may earn credit for one, but not both. 