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Courses - Fall 2025
HNUH
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Open Seats as of
03/29/2025 at 07:30 AM
HNUH258R
Cultivating conservation: exploring connections between biodiversity and livelihoods
Credits: 3
Grad Meth: Reg
There are a lot of ways food is harvested from land and sea before it reaches your dinner plate - not all of them are savory. In this course, we'll explore how the many livelihoods that provide us with food can also work to incorporate and rely on biodiversity conservation. What does biodiversity conservation look like in a working landscape or seascape? How do social movements align or contrast with different food production and conservation practices? And finally, how are these environments - and the people and cultures embedded in them - increasingly under threat? Through complementary aspects of social science and conservation practice, this course emphasizes not only the threats posed to unique localities and livelihoods, but also the hope of a just and sustainable dinner table. Students will leave with knowledge of the practices and skills needed to participate in transforming our food system for improved environmental and community outcomes.
HNUH258R is part of the Conserving Biodiversity thematic cluster and pairs with HNUH258C to complete the cluster. Conserving Biodiversity courses will be offered through Spring 2027.