GGR101H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Fernand Braudel, Carl O. Sauer, Malthusianism
14 Jan 2019
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Course description: this course is about climate change in the past and how people back then responded to these changes. This is a science course (taught by a social scientists) Co-requisite for upper year geography (ggr) courses. Course description: both books need to be bought: global environments, holocene. Continued course description: climate change is the single most important issue of our time, the science of climate change is settled. Our planet is definitely warming at a faster pace than in the past 12,000 years: the current controversy is about who/what is to blame, we need to focus on what, if any our response should be. Continued course description: this course will examine past climate and its impacts on human civilizations, will also focus on the ways in which people have altered their environments, and the consequences of those decisions. Physical geography: earth"s formation and composition, climate, beginnings of life on our planet.
