This course will be an introductory course covering the sociological foundations of environmental problems. It will examine the macro, mezzo, and micro level relationships humans share with the biophysical environment. Among other things the course will cover the following: the political and economic forces that have institutionalized patterns of extraction, production, consumption, and waste that lead to unequal exchanges between humans and environmental systems; inequality within the distribution of environmental 'goods and bads' and its impacts to human health; social psychological and cultural facets of human-environment interactions including aspects of social cognition that influence how we process information about environmental problems and disputes.