Teaching
Courses taught by Dr. Bailey:
ENVS 3525: Conservation, History, & Society
This course explores the history and modern practice of conservation and links to culture, equity, economics, politics, and other facets of human societies. In this class you will examine values and principles underpinning conservation, how different aspects of society influence conservation planning and conservation outcomes, and how justice and equity are connected to conservation. You will also explore how to integrate the arts and games into science and conservation and learn more about experiences of conservation practitioners. The goal of this course is to explore what conservation means and how it is understood and practiced across societal contexts, while having fun and experiencing joy.
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
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Articulate the values that underpin their perspectives on conservation
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Describe the origins of the conservation movement and implications for modern conservation
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Identify success and challenges of traditional and novel conservation approaches
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Develop strategies to achieve conservation goals that incorporate ecological, sociological, economic, and other dimensions
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Explain how the arts can be integrated into conservation
Taught every Spring and Fall
ENVS 5100-003: Conflict Management and Collaboration in human-environment systems
Work in human-environmental systems involves a dynamic mix of multiple and competing actors, complex issues, and continually evolving conditions. Disagreements among stakeholders can derail even the most well organized projects if left unaddressed, yet most environmental professionals have little to no training in conflict management. Whether disputes are over infrastructure, land use, endangered species, equity, or other topics of concern, sustainable solutions to vexing problems require effective strategies for engaging people and bridging differences. This course provides students with concepts, skills, and strategies for understanding and addressing situations of conflict and of collaboration. This course will combine a focus on skill development with discussion of conflict management and collaboration concepts, strategies, and tools. It will prepare participants to more effectively analyze and address contentious situations in a variety of cultural contexts. Through simulations, role-plays, selected readings, case studies and other activities, students will strengthen skills relevant to the practice environmental management, research, and collaboration.
Typically offered in alternating years
ENVS 4800: Human-Environment Interactions in Sub-Saharan Africa
Many of the important issues facing Africans today are the consequences of human modifications of the climate, physical landscape, and broader environment at local and global scales. These consequences can be intended and unintended, positive and negative, and both long and short-term. This course investigates the inter-relationship between humans and their natural or physical environments in Sub-Saharan Africa, a place of extraordinarily diverse, vibrant, and dynamic human cultures and environments. We will look at issues facing contemporary African societies and the challenges that the people and nations of this vast continent are working to resolve. Topics to be considered include human subsistence strategies, natural resource use, conservation, and human impact upon vegetation, soil, water, landforms, and climate. Students will explore these topics through governance, risk perception, demography, resilience, and the concept of sustainability. This course is a discussion-based class and is intended for upper-level undergraduates.
Taught every Spring
