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11.171 Indigenous Environmental Planning
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Undergrad (Spring)
(Subject meets with 11.271)
Prereq: None
Units: 3-0-9
Lecture: W9.30-12.30 (9-255)
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Examines how Indigenous peoples' relationships to their homelands and local environments has been adversely affected by Western planning. Explores how these relationships have changed over time as American Indians, Alaska Natives, and other groups indigenous to North America and Hawai'i have adapted to new conditions, including exclusion from markets of exchange, overhunting/overfishing, dispossession, petrochemical development, conservation, mainstream environmentalism, and climate change. Seeks to understand current environmental challenges and their roots and discover potential solutions to address these challenges. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments.
Lawrence Susskind, Janelle Knox-Hayes, Jean-Luc Pierite
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