This course focuses on contemporary world problems from interdisciplinary and anthropological
perspectives. Employing the cross-cultural, evolutionary, and multi-disciplinary
methods of anthropology and cultural ecology, the course examines the environmental
crisis, rain forest destruction, resource management, consumption culture, world hunger,
food systems, population pressure, poverty, energy distribution, the future of the
global free market, and the role of ideology in environmental adaptation with the
objective to foster crisis awareness and informed response.