This course provides students with a comprehensive understanding of the impacts of human society on the environment as well as humanity’s conservation solutions to those impacts. The class will examine environmental issues and their root causes, such as climate change, pollution, loss of common-pool resources, and deforestation, from economic, social, scientific, business and health points of view. Students will analyze and evaluate innovative conservation solutions: climate agreements, credits and markets, protected area declarations, trade constraints, and indigenous management regimes. For students in their first and second year of study or those with approval from instructor for enrolling in the course.