This course integrates criminal justice, national security studies, political science, and natural sciences in a study of globalization’s influence on international crime and terrorism that is linked to the natural environment. Subjects including resource scarcity, pollution, desertification, species elimination, and climate change will be explored by examining their effects on communities that are linked to the world’s ecosystems. The main focus will be on the increasing power and danger of global crime and terror organizations and how they use the natural environment as a target for their illegal activities.