Teaching
Courses
Both courses tackle where evidence meets decision-making, informed by 'real-world' experience.
ENVB 437 · Senior undergraduate
Assessing Environmental Impact
A broad grounding in the principles and practice of environmental assessment, and in the problems that surround impact assessment for sustainable development. Students look at how agencies in Canada and elsewhere apply assessment techniques in pursuit of socially responsible and environmentally sustainable decisions, and where those techniques can fall down.
AGEC 430 · Senior undergraduate
Agriculture, Food and Resource Policy
A conceptual grounding in public policy and in what happens when policy meets different resource contexts. The course covers the main principles and theories behind food, agriculture and resource policy in Canadian and international settings. Readings, discussion, guest lectures and assignments centre on a recurring problem: what makes evidence-based analysis useful to policy deliberation, and what stops it being used?
