Spring 2021 ENS 202 - Environment and Sustainability II Natural Sciences and Policy Tuesday and Thursday 9:30-10:45 am Synchronous |
J. Anthony Stallins University of Kentucky - Dept of Geography Syllabus Zoom office hours: Mondays 11 - 1 and Fridays 9 - 11 (Make appts through links available in Canvas) |
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1. The world viewed through sense, mind and context: where science and policy begin |
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| Jan | 26 | T | Introduction | |
| 28 | R | |||
Feb |
2 | T | Philosophy and science | The Lost Norse (Science) |
| 4 | R | Scale | We Cannot Live By Scepticism Alone (Nature) | |
| 9 | T | In-class unit assessment group preparation Assessment 1 video due Monday Feb 22 in Canvas |
Who Would Kill a Monk Seal? (NYTimes) | |
| 11 | R | |||
2. Order, disorder, and complexity: science and policy as co-evolutionary dynamic |
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| 16 | T | Ecological order and disorder | ||
| 18 | R | Complexity | ||
| 23 | T | Resilience theory | Free Agents (Science) | |
| 25 | R | Adaptive management | Can Humankind Escape the Tragedy of the Commons? (PNAS) | |
Mar |
2 | T | In-class unit assessment review and group preparation Assessment 2 video due Monday March 15 in Canvas | How To Stop the Wildfires (Persuasion) |
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| 3. Understanding prediction and human behavior for environmental policy | ||||
| 9 | T | Cognitive biases and game theory | ||
| 11 | R | Models and modeling | The Cognitive Biases Tricking your Brain (Atlantic) | |
| 16 | T | Climate change: from modeling to policy | Nudging Pro-Environmental Behavior (Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution) | |
| 18 | R | Guest speaker In-class unit assessment overview and group video preparation Assessment 3 video due Monday April 5 in Canvas |
Tit for Tat (Radiolab) | |
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| 25 | R | |||
4. Rethinking biodiversity and conservation policy |
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| 30 | T | The limits of conservation policies | ||
Apr |
1 | R | ||
| 6 | T | The fuzzy concept of biodiversity | The Last Two Northern White Rhinos on Earth (NYTimes) | |
| 8 | R | Discourses about megafauna conservation policies | The Ultimate Pursuit in Hunting Sheep (NYTimes) | |
| 13 | T | Trophy (video) | ||
| 15 | R | In-class unit assessment review and group preparation Assessment 4 video due Monday April 26 in Canvas |
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5. Policies for the Anthropocene |
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| 20 | T | Environmentalist and ecomodernist policies |
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| 22 | R | The Problem With Putting a Price on the End of the World (NYTimes) | ||
| 27 | T | Algorithmic Earth | Wall Street Eyes Billions in the Colorado's Water (NYTimes) | |
| 29 | R | Financializing nature | Animal Planet (NYTimes) | |
| May | 4 | T | Reading Days | |
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| 7 | F | |||
| 13 | R | Assessment 5 due in Canvas before midnight | ||