ANTH 410A | ENVIR 410A | ESRM 405A

GROWING STUFF
Ecology, Economy, and Politics of Resource-Extraction Ecosystems

Spring Quarter 2017
Tuesdays and Thursdays 9:30-11:20, Denny 212
Field trips all day Fridays April 14, May 12, and May 26

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READINGS
Introduction
Forest General
Forest Local
Forest Post-Trip
Aquaculture Ecology
Aquaculture Politics
Aquaculture Local
Dairy General
Dairy Local
Dairy Post-Trip

FIELD TRIPS
Forest Products
Aquaculture
Dairy

ESSAY ASSIGNMENTS Forest Products
Shellfish
Dairy

Activities for Week 4: Reflecting on the field trip and the way forward

Tuesday, April 18

Today, we will start with a post-mortem on our field trip. The first thing will be a slide show that two volunteers will choose from pictures that you send to them by 5 p.m. on Monday, the 18th. If you take pictures on the trip, please send them up to 20 pictures, in format small enough not to overflow their email inboxes. Or if the volunteers would like to use a different medium for sharing; that's fine, as long as it ends up a nice slide show, with comments on the significance of the pictures.

The next thing will be a case study of biomass-to-energy in the Northwest. As a guest speaker we will have Professor Indroneil Ganguly of SEFS. In preparation for his talk, please have a look at the following materials: Those of you who have the LCA-bug may also want to read this longer piece on LCA of Residual Biomass-Based Biofuel, though it's not required. After you have read and watched this material, but before 7 p.m. on Monday, April 17, please post at least two questions you would like Professor Ganguly to address

Thursday, April 20

For the first part of an hour, we will have a discussion of the essay assignments that are due on Monday, April 25, since you will be in the middle of writing your essays, and this is the first one you will be doing.

For the remainder of the hour, I am going to present two case-studies from my own work of forests and biodiversity in China, that will illustrate the tradeoffs between biomass quantity and biodiversity. In preparation, please read our article on Traditional livelihoods and Meadow Ecology, and watch a video on Ecological Decline and Recovery (Lesson 5, Parts I and II) in a different part of Sichuan. In class, I will present a comparative analysis of these two cases, as well as some final reflections on tradeoffs in resource management.