Man and Nature: From Creation to Climate Change

How does our natural environment shape our political realities and fortunes? While today we are more aware than ever of the pressures posed by limited resources, fragile ecosystems, and a rapidly changing climate, the history of political thought reveals a long-standing awareness of the interdependence between nature and the political edifice. By tracing out the development of core concepts, this course offers the chance to survey a series of complex dynamics of dependence, control, crisis, and escape that govern the interplay between man and the environment.
Class Notes:Gov 94pn will be taught by Prof. Amy Chandran.theory_subfieldpublic_policy