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ENVIR 300

ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES: SYNTHESIS AND APPLICATION


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This schedule gives you the basic information for each day of class. Click on the topic to get a fuller class plan, including links to specific readings and assignments, or click on the links to readings and assignments here. Assignments that are not links are from your required textbooks.


UNIT/DATE TOPIC READINGS ASSIGNMENTS
Part I: Concepts
T April 1
The perception of crisis Ehrlich
Hardin
Schellenberger and Nordhaus
Th April 3 Population Dynamics Livi-Bassi
Malthus
Keyfitz
T Apr 8 Scale Levin
Berry
Carbon budget exercise posted
Population projections exercise due
Th Apr 10 System dynamics Smil
Francis
Form project groups
W Apr 15 No Class Today Environmental crisis paper due
Th Apr 17 Environmental Modeling Levins
Wackernagel and Rees
Pilkey and Pilkey-Jarvis
Scale or Sustainability paper posted
T Apr 22 Sustainability Brundtland
Solow
Orr
Carbon budget exercise due
Th Apr 24 Resilience Holling and Gunderson
M Apr 28 Scale or Sustainability paper due
Part II: Farms
T Apr 29
Historical Agroecology Altieri
Agriculture slides
Preliminary group proposals due
Farming paper posted
Nitrogen exercise posted
Th May 1 Input-Output Smil
Heilig
T May 6 Monoculture
The Organic Movement
Pollan
Fargione
Th May 8 Modeling a Dairy Dupuis
Farm Friends
Ecology 2007, 2008
VeenHuizen
Sat May 10 Dairy Field Trip
T May 13 Wrapping up the farm Nitrogen exercise due
Part III: Recycling
Th May 15
Urban Waste Streams EPA Waste
Brown
Metro
Schut
Farming paper due
Recycling paper posted
Recycling exercise posted
T May 20 Life-Cycle Assessment Rosselot and Allen
Hansen
EPA Modelling
Th May 22 Politics of Trash Hsu Group project progress reports
T May 27 Recycling Field Trip
Th May 29 Wrapping up Recycling Recycling exercise due
M June 2 Recycling paper due
Part IV: Finishing
T June 3
Wisdom Ellis
Turner
Th June 5
12:30-3:20
Final Group Presentations
T June 10 2:30-5:30
2:30-5:30
Final Group Presentations
Th June 12 Final group papers due