Topics

Among the topics we addressed course:

• Environmental decision-making
• What do environmental "problems" look like?
• Cost benefit analysis for address environmental issues
• Water quality
• Urban sprawl and the effect on the environment
• Environmental risk analysis
• Ecosystems and Interdependence in nature
• Hog farming in North Carolina
• The use of GIS and GPS for environmental study
• Municipal water treatment
• Vermiculture
• Energy audit
• Survey of North Carolina environmental challenges
• (and many others!)