This course is focused on environmental security which is defined by U.S. Department of State as a wide spectrum of security issues intensified by demographics, governance, and adaptive capacity, along with environmental factors such as non-sustainable practices, natural disasters, environmental degradation, and climate change.  This highly interdisciplinary perspective has now emerged as one basis for interpreting stability and conflict.  In fact, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has dedicated a great deal of effort to assessing the vulnerability of human populations resulting from environmental security.  This is a project-centric course in which student teams examine vulnerable populations through the lens of geography and the environmental sciences to identify factors of society, the environment, and non-sustainable practices that can enable or trigger political instability or conflict.  The course is built around the Conflict Vulnerability Model which explains how Exposure, Vulnerability, and Adaptive Capacity interact.  The course uses a case study methodology to illustrate different processes of environmental security