Learning outcomes

After studying this course, you should be able to:

• understand the complex interactions between environmental and social factors that caused the Greek wildfires of 2007

• critically reflect on Greece’s state of preparedness for future wildfires

• use social science approaches to gain complex understandings of what causes wildfires

• use social science approaches to critically assess existing preparations for the ongoing global environmental challenge of wildfires

• explain and use the geographical concept of entanglement.