HUMAN DIMENSIONS OF ENVIRONMENTAL
CHANGE
A Graduate Certificate Program
AT
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featuring: FACULTY AND STUDENTS FROM AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS, ANTHROPOLOGY, ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES, GEOGRAPHY, HISTORY, LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE, MARINE SCIENCES, NUTRITIONAL SCIENCES, SOCIOLOGY, URBAN POLICY AND PLANNING, AND OTHER GRADUATE PROGRAMS AT THE FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES AND AT COOK COLLEGE
The program helps graduate
students gain access to the outstanding resources available at
Students who fulfill the following requirements will receive a certificate, signifying special achievement in the field:
Seminar on the
Human Dimensions of Environmental Change (16:378:501)
A multidisciplinary course which surveys the human
dimensions of environmental problems and the full range of disciplinary
approaches used to study these problems. In the fall of
2005 Dr. Thomas Rudel, of the Sociology graduate program, will coordinate this
course [for more information: rudel@aesop.rutgers.
edu].
Topics Seminar (16:378:502)
Each year this seminar focuses on
a particular aspect of environmental problems, such as ecological risk,
modeling and climate change, culture and environment in frontier regions,
marine conservation policy, or institutional approaches to commons problems.
Please consult the Graduate Director for information on the offering in
any particular year. These courses are
usually cross-listed with other courses being offered.
at least one of the courses listed
below from outside the student's own graduate program:*
Anthropology of Development
Coastal Geomorphology
Colloquium in Environmental
History
Conservation Ecology
Earth System Science
Ecological Anthropology
Ecological Aspects of Global
Change
Ecological Risk
Environmental Anthropology
Environmental and Resource
Economics
Environmental Law & Policy
Environmental Management
Environmental Management and
Planning
Environmental Models
Environmental Problems in
Developing Countries
Environmental Risk
Environmental Sociology
Fundamental Concepts of
Environmental Science I,II
Hazardous Waste Management
Legal Aspects of Environmental
Planning
Maritime Anthropology
Modeling of Climate Change
Natural Hazards Management
Natural Resource Management
Principles of Solid Waste
Management &Treatment
Problems in Human Ecology
Seminar in Ecological Anthropology
Seminar in Environmental History
Sociology of Risk
*Note: This list is updated
periodically; please see the Graduate Director for an updated list.
PARTICIPATING FACULTY
Joanna
Burger, Ecology,
Evolution and Natural Resources Department, Ecology and Evolution Graduate
Program. Environmental and
Occupational Health Sciences Institute. Ecological Risk;
Fishing, Consumption and Risk; Behavioral Toxicology; Environmental Attitudes.
Caron Chess, Center for
Environmental Communication and Human Ecology Department. Risk Communication and Public
Participation.
Lee
Clarke, Sociology
Department and Graduate Program. Risks,
Hazards and Disasters
David
Ehrenfeld,
Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources Department. Ecology
& Evolution Graduate Program.
Conservation Ecology, Technology and Environment.
Joan
Ehrenfeld,
Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources Department. Ecology
& Evolution, Environmental Sciences Graduate Programs. Director, Water Resources Research Institute. Ecosystems Ecology, Wetland Ecology,
Restoration Ecology.
Frank
Fischer, Political Science Department, Rutgers
Judith
Friedman,
Sociology Department and Graduate Program. Urban
Environments, Suburbanization, Landscapes.
Michael
Gochfeld, Environmental and Community Medicine. Public Health Graduate
Program. Public Health,
Environmental Risk, Health Effects of Contaminants.
William
Goldfarb,
Environmental Sciences Department, Environmental Science Graduate Program. Environmental Law and
Policy, Water Law.
Michael
Greenberg,
Urban Studies Department, Geography Graduate Program. Environmental and Occupational
Safety and Health Institute, Public Health Program.
William
Hallman,
Human Ecology Department, Psychology Graduate Program. Community Psychology, Risk Perception.
Jean
Marie Hartman, Landscape Architecture Department, Ecology and Evolution Graduate
Program. Landscape Change.
Dorothy
Hodgson,
Anthropology Department and Graduate Program. Gender, Ethnicity,
Environment and Development,
Briavel Holcomb, Urban Studies
Department, Geography Graduate Program. Tourism.
David
McDermott Hughes, Human Ecology Department. Environmental Justice, Development,
R.
Daniel Keleman, Political Science Department. European Union
Environmental Policy, Comparative Environmental Policy and Trade-Environment
Conflicts.
Richard
Lathrop,
Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources Department and Graduate Program,
Geography Graduate Program. Remote
Sensing/GIS, Landscape Change.
Bonnie
McCay,
Human Ecology Department, Anthropology, Geography, and Ecology Graduate
Programs. Fisheries Conservation
and Common Property Resource Management.
James
Miller,
Marine and Coastal Sciences Department, Oceanography and Environmental Sciences
Graduate Programs. Earth
System Science and Climate Modeling.
J. Kenneth Mitchell, Geography Department
and Graduate Program. Natural Hazards Research and Policy.
George E.B. Morren, Jr.,
Human Ecology Department, Anthropology and Ecology Graduate Programs. Social Responses;
Conservation Ecology in Tropical Areas; Soft Systems Analysis.
George Nieswand, Ecology, Evolution and
Natural Resources Department, Bioresource
Engineering, Environmental Sciences and Geography Graduate Programs; Grant
Walton Remote Sensing Center. Systems Analysis/Systems Thinking, Land Use Planning/Growth Management,
Watershed Management.
Karl
Nordstrom,
Institute of Marine/Coastal Sciences, Marine Science Department, Geography
Graduate Program. Coastal Geomorphology and Policy.
Karen O=Neill, Human Ecology Department..Sociology Graduate Program. Environmental Policy, Political
Sociology.
Peter
Parks,
Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics Department and Graduate Program. Environmental
Economics.
Steward
Pickett,
Frank
Popper,
Urban Studies Department, Geography and Urban Planning Graduate Programs. Land Use Policy.
Carl Pray, Agricultural, Food and
Resource Economics Department and Graduate Program. International
Agricultural Development and Science and Technology Policy.
Kevin St. Martin, Geography Department and Graduate
Program. Coastal
and Fisheries Policy, Community and the Commons, GIS Applications.
For more information about the
Certificate Program in Human Dimensions of Environmental Change:
Graduate Director, Dr. Bonnie McCay
Department of Human Ecology,
Rutgers the
Phone: 732 932-9153 ext 314
Fax: 732 932-6667
e-mail: McCay@cook.rutgers.edu
WWW-site: http://www.cook.rutgers.edu/~humeco/
For information about
732-932-7747
732-932-4284
WWW site: http://www.rutgers.edu