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Land Politics and Health

DEVS 366
300-Level Courses
3 Units
In-person
3

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Course Description

This course explores land politics and health promotion at local and global levels. It situates health inequalities in political ecologies of environmental appropriation, exploitation, dispossession, and repossession. Students examine how global health can benefit from equity and ethics in human-land interaction and consider how equitable land reforms can promote healthy environments and healthy populations in communities and at the global level.

Learning Outcomes

  1. Analyze and discuss the primary conceptualizations and definition of land.
  2. Demonstrate a clear understanding of the interconnections between land and health.
  3. Examine and elucidate the fundamental manifestations of land politics on a global scale across the world.
  4. Evaluate the health consequences resulting from land politics for diverse populations and specific demographic groups.
  5. Propose strategies for reforming current land-related relationships to advance both population and global health equity.