Contextualizing Disaster and Vulnerability in Haiti
Natural disasters follow the fault lines of inequality, and Haiti is a clear example of how disaster and extreme vulnerability combine to produce catastrophe.
Image of the border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic courtesy
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Globalization and Invasion:
The Great Lakes Carp Threat Explained
Q & A with Reuben Keller, Henry Chandler Cowles Lecturer in Environmental Studies
Photograph by permission of Jason Lindsey.
Outside on the Southside
Undergraduates discover the complex ecology in Chicago's backyard.
This past Spring the first group of students participated in the "Calumet Quarter", PGE's intensive experience-based curriculum in environmental studies focused on the Calumet region.
Photo by Daneen Vol shared under a Creative Commons license.
Geophysical Sciences professor John Frederick will work with undergraduate students to obtain high quality data related to solar radiation measured in Alaska and Greenland.
Photo by Daneen Vol shared under a Creative Commons license.
Latest News
Research Opportunity for Environmental Studies Majors & Minors
Organize a Student Conference! PGE and the Environmental Studies program will sponsor an undergraduate organized and run conference during the 2009-10 academic year.
- Reuben Keller appointed Cowles Lecturer in Environmental Studies
Conference: Economic Valuation of Ecosystem Services
2009 PGE Student-Organized Conference Blog: Does the Environment Have a Right? Critical Perspectives on Environmentalism and the Left
