GEO 260 Rivers and Mountains: Social and Environmental Geographies

This course examines the key roles that rivers and mountains have played in social-environmental interaction over time. Rivers and mountains have long served as important uniters and dividers of geographic organization by providing paths of connection and serving as natural boundaries. Rivers and mountains shape human livelihoods, colonialization, and conflict. Humans’ use of rivers and mountains has led to pollution, deforestation, and exploitation, while rivers and mountains have also affected societies through floods and landslides and messages from local deities. This class uses case studies from world geography to explore nature-society relations from the perspective of these natural features.

Credits

4