ENS 315 Environmental Conflict and Negotiation
Environmentalism is contentious and environmental controversies and conflicts are constantly taking shape. Negotiation is a process for managing environmental conflicts; it is a process of jointly making decisions to reconcile different interests. This course will focus on developing negotiation skills that can be applied to situations of environmental conflict. Through the use of negotiation simulations and case studies, we will examine contemporary environmental conflicts, identify the opportunities and challenges of using negotiation processes to manage environmental conflicts, and develop and practice our own negotiation skills. While the cases we discuss in class will pertain to environmental issues, the negotiation skills learned and developed in this course are easily transferable to other domains.
Prerequisite
ENS 210 is recommended.