BIOL 292 - Leadership for Environmental Sustainability

Credit Hours: 3

This course is designed to explore the role of sustainability in managing natural resources and in guiding informed decision-making by principled leaders in the fields of business, politics, science, and beyond. Sustainability is the use of guiding principles to manage the exploitation of resources, the direction of investments, the orientation of technological development, and institutional change so that they are consistent with future as well as present needs. This course highlights the roles of stewardship and sustainability in the decisions that principled leaders must make. Students will develop an understanding of how to evaluate short-term and long-term resource needs and how to communicate the environmental decision-making process..