SCOMC 512 - Elements of Sustainability and Livable Communities

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This course focuses on formation and preservation of sustainable, healthy communities; the importance of leaders who understand the relationships between natural, built, and social environments; and the need to maintain these connections in holistic and integrative ways. Students learn the concepts of sustainability and healthy living and explore methods used to create and maintain communities working to become environmentally, economically, and socially resilient and equitable. The course also explores ways to manage urban growth or shrinkage and promote alternative means of transportation, food production and access, affordable safe housing, and so on. Students define and explore these concepts through case studies and examples drawn from local communities.