Steven Vanek

Science

Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Erie-Behrend College

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Module 10: Food Systems part of Future of Food
Module 10 continues the theme of human-environment interactions seen at a smaller scale with agroecosystems in Module 8, and develops the ideas of coupled human-natural systems (CHNS) begun at the beginning of the ...

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Steven Vanek: Using in The Future of Food at Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus part of Future of Food
I participated in piloting the course as one of the main authors. I have always been excited about this course because I think it fills such a vital need: connecting learners through something familiar and ubiquitous like food, to the central issues of human-environment interactions and sustainability. Like many course pilots, this first iteration of the course tested this aspiration in a practical context with a variety of learners, and I wasn't always sure that we were meeting the compelling vision for the course. In the end, many of our students emerged from the course more aware of issues of sustainability around food and with creative ideas they had proposed for their capstone regions, which was very gratifying to me.

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