Resource Management and Sustainability

A focus on resource management from ecological, economic, social/behavioural and instiutitional/decision-making perspectives. Emphasis is given to the conflicts between economic growth (i.e. often from resource exploitation) and resource sustainability. The course also emphasizes the ecological limits of renewable resources and what resources depletion means for future generations. Opportunities for acheiving sustinable resource use, especially here in Canada, are discussed.