ENVR251
Ecology and Policy: The Maine Lobster Fishery and Right Whale Conservation
Subject code
ENVR
Course Number
251
Department(s)
Instructor(s)
C. Aoki
Course Long Title
Ecology and Policy: The Maine Lobster Fishery and Right Whale Conservation
Description
Understanding how science, policy, and livelihoods interact is critical to citizen engagement with many issues related to the environment. This course provides some of the tools for such interdisciplinary engagement, using the case study of the Maine lobster fishery and ongoing debates over right whale conservation within that fishery. The course reviews the basics of how marine policy is made at local, state, and federal levels; explores concepts and models from population ecology and their application in conservation and fisheries management; and asks how policy can be responsive to livelihood needs that are in conflict with conservation goals. Prerequisite(s): ENVR 203 or BIO 206.
Modes of Inquiry
Historical and Social Inquiry [HS], Quantitative and Formal Reasoning [QF]
Writing Credit
No writing credit
INDS Program Relationship
IDES - ENVR Program
Class Restriction
Exclude First Years