MAF 501 - Political Ecology of Resource Management, Prof. Sarah Meltzoff

Course Goals: The course provides a grounding in political ecology as an important theoretical approach to resource policy and management. It explores socialanalysis of resource use, social change and development. We will explore how models of development and concepts of nature relate to resource use and policy formation. Within this framework, we will examine ethnicity, class and the politics of conservation.

Material:

  1. The research Agenda of Political Ecology
  2. Case Study of the Chilean Fisheries
  3. Case Study of Ecuadorean Mariculture

Assignments: Readings and Field Research Paper

Grades: Class Participation 50%, 10-page Field Research Paper 50%

Textbook: Articles by Meltzoff and LiPuma