ENVS 1500 : 1 ENVS_1000_Lecture_Notes_winter_.docx

• School: York University
• Department: Environmental Studies
• Course: ENVS 1500
• Professor: Gail Fraser

Document Summary

In lectures this second term we will be examining the contemporary environmental movement and the issues that concern it. It is important to realize that the roots of environmentalism go deep into the rise of the modern world which environmental concerns (and its myths, metaphors, symbols and commitments) did not just start in the last few years. Week 14: wednesday, january 4; the crisis of modernity and the rise of. Abstract: this focus on the natural world was disrupted and challenged with the publication of darwin"s. The arrival of modernity, and a return to the first. Lecture themes: the crisis involving human powers capable of threatening earth systems, and the prospect of managing the earth . This focus on the natural world was disrupted and challenged with the publication of darwin"s. Ecosystems and other aspects of natural processes helped establish the scientific aspects of the environmental approach.