Monday, March 27, 4:00pm-5:45pm
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In Professor Casson’s class, students read contemporary texts and address current environmental issues such as landscape sustainability, overpopulation, environmental justice and sociology, farming practices, climate change, environmental degradation, environmental health, energy sustainability, pollution, waste and recycling, resource depletion, and conservation. This class features renowned conservation biologist Richard Primack, author of Walden Warming, who discusses how our warming climate comes to be revealed in the interchange of science and literature.
Walker 521
120 Boylston St., Boston, MA 02116
Sustainable Development Goal 15: Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss.
The United Nations describes this goal as "conserving life on land. It is to protect and restore terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and stop biodiversity loss. Healthy ecosystems and the biological diversity they support are a source of food, water, medicine, shelter and other material goods. They also provide ecosystem services – the cleaning of air and water – which sustain life and increase resiliency in the face of mounting pressures."
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