Background, approaches, and resources for teaching energy in environmental studies

Production and use of energy have figured prominently in environmental studies sciences (ESS) for many years, it is particularly relevant to enduring themes, such as climate change, justice, ecosystem disruption, the study natural resources. Despite its acknowledged centrality, relatively few ESS courses delved into intricacies a broad interdisciplinary framework. This paper encourages development improvement but recognizes that faculty will select topics resources match their own abilities interests needs students. The (a) proposes framework conceptual content (b) suggests numerous organized 5 categories 17 subcategories. Each subcategory has an explanation role larger picture about energy, each resource brief annotation utility. Future work on should address pedagogical techniques, different ways integrating perspectives from disciplines, specific subsets programs.