The course aims to provide students with the core theoretical and methodological tools of political ecology for the critical analysis of the relationships between society, the environment, and power. Through an interdisciplinary approach, it will examine socio-ecological conflicts, inequalities in access to resources, the governance of nature, and competing conceptions of development. By the end of the course, students will be able to interpret environmental crises as simultaneously ecological, political, and cultural processes, and to critically assess policies, discourses, and practices of socio-environmental transformation.