Environmental Studies Program
科罗拉多大学环境研究项目帮助学生了解他们与环境的关系, 掌握在全球生态系统中探索科学和人类相互关系的技能, 和 pursue interdisciplinary approaches to problem solving. We offer two integrated majors in Environmental Science 和 Environmental Studies, 和 a disciplinary track in Environmental Chemistry
的 Environmental Science Major has the following goals:
环境科学专业培养学生研究地球系统，特别关注人类如何与环境相互作用. 学生从多个科学学科获得工具来解决社会和环境的界面问题.
Learning Outcomes:
- Student can articulate, measure/calculate, analyze, 和 model:
- the dynamics of a complex system
- 能量和物质在地球系统每个球体内部和之间的流动和转化
- 学生可以利用定量推理技巧来解决与社会相关的环境问题
- 学生能够批判性地分析科学知识的收集方式, 以及对它发生的历史和社会结构的欣赏
- 学生能够向多个相关受众传播科学知识
的 Environmental Studies Major has the following goals:
环境研究专业培养学生调查社会生态关系的复杂性. 学生使用跨社会科学的多个学科的方法, humanities, 自然科学追求跨学科的探究和解决问题. Students will be able to articulate the ways institutions, societies, 和 individuals respond to 和 shape environmental outcomes.
Learning Outcomes:
完成本专业后，学生将能够表达以下内容:
- How institutions, values, ideas, 权力关系塑造了人类与生物物理环境之间的关系
- How current social, cultural, 和 ecological conditions are shaped by changes over time 和 across space
- Possible pathways for more sustainable 和 just outcomes
Elective Tracks
Though you are not required to have a focus area for your major, many students find it useful to do so. Below are suggested elective tracks (Note that some of the following electives can also fulfill major requirements; classes cannot be double counted.)
- Environmental Justice: EV274, EV276, EV282, SW220, EV375, EV301, EV342
- Environmental Policy 和 Management: EV373, EV341, EV356, EV334, EV323, EV352, EV375, EV342, EV335, EV321
- 环境人文:EV281, EV282, EV255, EV285, EV273, EV261, EV361, PH303
- Conservation Ecology: EV209; EV343, EV316, EV309, EV321
In 的 News
EV315 course in the Colorado Sun! 在科罗拉多州南部，葡萄的复苏给了晦涩难懂的葡萄酒一个聚光灯
Whales, 摄影师萨顿·林奇正在记录长岛海岸一个戏剧性的转折点——经过几十年的枯竭后，海洋生物的复苏.
Assistant Professor Mike Angstadt published "Can Domestic Environmental Courts Implement International Environmental Law? A Framework for Institutional Analysis" in the journal Transnational Environmental Law (July 2023).
Associate Professor Amy Kohout (History) published her first book this year! Taking the Field: Soldiers, Nature, 和 Empire on American Frontiers (University of Nebraska, 2023)通过追踪美国士兵在战争中的方式，考察了19世纪末和20世纪初关于自然和帝国的思想的交集.S. Army made sense of the l和scapes of their service in both the U.S. West 和 the Philippines. By following these imperial pathways back 和 forth across the Pacific, Kohout shows us how soldiers—through their writing, their labor, 以及他们所收集的一切——在塑造美国人关于自然和帝国的观念方面发挥了关键作用, ideas that persist to the present.
Rikki Held ' 23(电动汽车科学专业)赢得关于气候变化的里程碑式诉讼
On Monday, 一名蒙大拿州的法官做出了有利于由23岁的Rikki Held领导的年轻环保活动人士的裁决，这些活动人士担心他们享有清洁健康环境的宪法权利受到侵犯. 他们认为，国家机构在没有充分考虑化石燃料对气候的影响的情况下就允许了化石燃料的开发.
This groundbreaking ruling 源于一项独特的试验，这是美国首例此类试验. 它加入了一组有限的全球法律决定，这些决定确立了政府有义务保护公民免受气候变化后果的影响.
In this context, 地方法院法官凯西·西利(Kathy Seeley)宣布，该州评估化石燃料许可申请的政策违宪. 这项政策目前限制了各机构评估温室气体排放的后果.
Rikki Held ’23 被提名为2023年《全球十大赌博靠谱平台》100位未来人物——这是一份表彰健康领域冉冉升起的领导者的名单, climate, the arts – for her work as the lead plaintiff in Held v. State of Montana, 这是美国第一起宪法诉讼，也是第一起由年轻人主导的气候诉讼.S. See her bio here
Congratulations to EV seniors Olivia Coutre 和 Charlie Lynch who both recently had their research published!
- Coutre, O. (2023). Conjunctive Water Management Practices for the Edwards Aquifer, Texas.的 Water Report 228: 11-21.
- Lynch, C., 和 M. Ferasso (2023). 公司内在价值观对其可持续性的影响:来自一家鞋业天生可持续发展的中小企业的证据. Cleaner 和 Responsible Consumption 9: 100124.
Assistant Professor Mike Angstadt 在2022年10月的多伦多地球系统治理会议上发表了“司法创新和分散的环境治理:来自气候诉讼的教训”. 最初的发现来自于2022年春季赌博正规的十大网站学生进行的研究 Aidan Daly (’22), Will Funk (’22), Gillian Lasher, Evan Rao, 和 Ceilidh Shea (’22) 和 in collaboration with Dr. Hyeyoon Park (Lund University, Sweden).
COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt! Here you will find media 和 student reports of our time abroad
政治学副教授，环境研究项目主任 Corina McKendry has co-edited a book titled “Urban Cascadia 和 the Pursuit of Environmental Justice.” Urban Cascadia 和 the Pursuit of Environmental Justice
Professor of Environmental Education Howard Drossman 获得了科罗拉多环境教育联盟颁发的终身成就奖.