814.539 (14S) Warfare and Environment through History

Sommersemester 2014

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First course session
20.05.2014 09:00 - 17:00 IFF, Schottenfeldgasse 29, SR 4c Off Campus
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Overview

Lecturer
Course title german Warfare and Environment through History
Type Seminar (continuous assessment course )
Hours per Week 1.0
ECTS credits 2.0
Registrations 6 (30 max.)
Organisational unit
Language of instruction German
Course begins on 01.03.2014

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Course Information

Teaching methodology including the use of eLearning tools

Each day’s sessions will include lectures, discussions of assigned readings, analysis of methodologies that can be used to understand the complex ecological impacts of warfare, and consideration of the legacies for today’s world. Each participant will initiate discussion of an assigned reading or topic.

Course content

The course will survey the interactions between natural environments and warfare through history. Warfare and preparations for war have always determined leading aspects of social, political, and economic life, as well as a constituting a major force for disruption. This has had complex and fateful impacts on the natural environment: consuming natural resources and degrading ecosystems. But until very recently environmental historians have largely neglected the impacts of military mobilization and collective violence. Conversely, military historians have neglected the environmental consequences of war and militarization, although they have routinely studied climate and terrain as the settings for conflict. The challenge for environmental history is to provide an understanding of the distinctive ecological consequences of war and militarization. This course is designed to survey our long history, but our major focus will be on the modern or industrial era, from the late eighteenth century to the present.

Teaching objective

The overall purpose of this short course is to orient students to a rapidly emerging sub-field of environmental history, as it attempts to integrate material and methods from a wide range of traditional disciplines. Our inquiry will be at the forefront of present research on how mass confict has shaped the dynamic interactions between societies and the natural world.

Examination information

Im Fall von online durchgeführten Prüfungen sind die Standards zu beachten, die die technischen Geräte der Studierenden erfüllen müssen, um an diesen Prüfungen teilnehmen zu können.

Assessment criteria / Standards of assessment for examinations

After the three days of lectures and discussions, each participant will write an integrative essay (2,000 - 2,500 words), discussing the main themes and materials of the course, and including an annot

Grading scheme

Grade / Grade grading scheme

Position in the curriculum

  • Master's degree programme Social and Human Ecology (SKZ: 919, Version: 05W.1)
    • Subject: Modul 6: Spezialgebiete und Ergänzungsfächer (Compulsory elective)
      • Spezialgebiete und Ergänzungsfächer ( 0.0h XX / 12.0 ECTS)
        • 814.539 Warfare and Environment through History (1.0h SE / 2.0 ECTS)

Equivalent courses for counting the examination attempts

This course is not assigned to a sequence of equivalent courses