Truly sustainable communities are founded on key ecosystem services such as clean water, productive soils, and integrated networks of social and economic capital.
Natural Resources Conservation: Sustainable Communities Concentration Courses
Sustainable Development
This course explores:
Three complex and linked challenges: ending extreme poverty, improving social inclusion, and achieving sustainability on our planet. The course examines national and global policies in energy, biodiversity and conservation, health, sustainable business practices, food and nutritional security, social service delivery, and sound governance.
Strategic Communication for Sustainability
This course provides students the opportunity to develop vital professional skills in oral and written communication while preparing them to communicate clearly about science, natural resources policy, sustainability, and technology issues with demographically diverse and geographically dispersed audiences
Building Collaborative Communities
This course connects students with communities to address sustainability priorities and challenges through an engaged, collaborative effort. This course is intended to build understanding of the importance of partnerships in the field of sustainable development.
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We, the Faculty at Paul Smith’s College, strive to preserve an exceptional way of teaching and learning informed by the real work of humanity – to be environmentally and socially responsible to the planet and its people. Our way crosses all disciplines, explores connections, and expresses itself confidently in thoughts, words, and deeds. At the core of our experiential education, we hold these values to be indispensable: a) a deepened engagement with our students, it is real and in place; b) an integrated education that cultivates the student as a whole being in mind, body, heart, and soul; and c) the history, culture and environment of the Adirondacks as a place that speaks to our deeper sense of self and purpose. We strive to preserve our way and our values to be a universal example that connections of people with people and of people with environments is at the heart of education.