Nils Guettler: Catalogue data in Spring Semester 2022 |  |
| Name | PD Dr. Nils Guettler |
| Field | History of science and environmental history |
| Address | Dep. Geistes-,Sozial-u.Staatswiss. ETH Zürich, RZ G 9.1 Clausiusstrasse 59 8092 Zürich SWITZERLAND |
| nils.guettler@wiss.gess.ethz.ch | |
| Department | Humanities, Social and Political Sciences |
| Relationship | Privatdozent |
| Number | Title | ECTS | Hours | Lecturers | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 851-0070-00L | Environment and the Sciences | 3 credits | 2G | N. Guettler | |
| Abstract | Climate crisis, species extinction and pandemics have made the study of "environment" one of the most important topics in contemporary science. But when did the scientific study of the environment begin, and how did social changes and political upheavals in the 19th and 20th centuries alter the concept of the environment and ecology? | ||||
| Learning objective | In the lecture, students become acquainted with the fundamental trajectories of the development in the modern environmental sciences. Through brief and joint analysis of selected source material, the knowledge they gain is applied to concrete topics and critically evaluated. | ||||
| Content | The lecture focuses on the development of interdisciplinary "environmental sciences" in the 19th and 20th centuries as well as the emergence of an environmental consciousness in related fields such as architecture and the humanities. Emphasis will be placed on the transformation of ancient natural history into a modern ecology, the role of (geo)political factors such as colonialism and the Cold War, the influence of infrastructures on modern environmental sciences, and the importance of social movements and popular science initiatives. | ||||