Environmental Sciences 105 introduces a scientific approach to sustainability and explores how today’s and past human societies have faced an ever changing environment, ecosystem conversions and resource depletions. The course focuses on key areas of sustainability theory and practice, including population, ecosystems, global change, energy, agriculture, water, environmental economics and policy, ethics, and cultural history, and draws on understanding ecology and earth sciences.


ES105Lab is a one-credit-hour lab course to accompany Earth Science 105 lectures. Environmental Sciences 105 introduces a scientific approach to sustainability and explores how today’s and past human societies have faced an ever changing environment, ecosystem conversions and resource depletions. The course focuses on key areas of sustainability theory and practice, including population, ecosystems, global change, energy, agriculture, water, environmental economics and policy, ethics, and cultural history, and draws on understanding ecology and earth sciences.

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