NRES 527

Credit: 4 hours.

Deepens students’ understanding of policy, economic, community, and cultural factors that empower and constrain wetland protection, conservation, and restoration. The first half explores wetland regulation and management in the U.S., in other countries, and internationally with attention to adapting to environmental change within those policy contexts. The second half focuses on competing management and conservation priorities, social aspects of wetland conservation, restoration, and management, and developing skills in the effective and culturally sensitive stakeholder engagement.

Prerequisite: NRES 417. Restricted to Wetland Science and Conservation Graduate Certificate.