Jun 28, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
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GEOG 3450 - Access to Water in a Changing World
This course focuses on the political, economic, and social drivers of water access in a globalized world. These factors are examined using case studies in developed and developing contexts in relation to uncertainties of climate change. Course topics include water privatization, scarcity, pollution, urbanism, indigeneity, the state, habitat, and human displacement. Social and environmental justice dimensions of these themes are explored and analyzed.
Requisites: GEOG 1200 or GEOG 1310 or GEOG 2400 and (Jr or Sr)
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Students will be able to assess how water is a politically-charged resource through which the power of state and capital is exercised in a neoliberal, globalizing world.
- Students will be able to recognize that water scarcity is a socio-natural phenomenon produced in part by a changing climate and partly in accordance with capitalist logics.
- Students will be able to define the ways that varying regimes of water access have the potential to impact vulnerable human populations throughout the world.
- Students will be able to identify existing and hypothetical water governance strategies and arrangements that promise more equity in regard to water access around the world.
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