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 | Philosophy and science | |||
Feb |
2 | T | Scale | The Lost Norse (Science) | |
| 4 | R | Sampling | We Cannot Live By Scepticism Alone (Nature) | ||
| 9 | T | Who Would Kill a Monk Seal? (NYTimes) | |||
| 11 | R | In-class unit assessment group preparation | |||
| 15 | M | Assessment 1 video due Monday Feb 15 in Canvas | |||
2. Order, disorder, and complexity: science and policy as co-evolutionary dynamic |
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| 16 | T | Ecological order and disorder | Free Agents (Science) | ||
| 18 | R | Complexity | Can Humankind Escape the Tragedy of the Commons? (PNAS) | ||
| 23 | T | Resilience theory | How To Stop the Wildfires (Persuasion) | ||
| 25 | R | Adaptive management | |||
Mar |
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| 4 | R | In-class unit assessment group preparation | |||
| 8 | M | Assessment 2 video due Monday March 8 in Canvas | |||
| 3. Understanding prediction and human behavior for environmental policy | |||||
| 9 | T | Game theory | Tit for Tat (Radiolab) | ||
| 11 | R | Models and modeling | Nudging Pro-Environmental Behavior (Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution) | ||
| 16 | T | Climate change modeling and policy | The Cognitive Biases Tricking your Brain (Atlantic) | ||
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| 25 | R | In-class unit assessment group preparation | |||
| 29 | M | Assessment 3 video due Monday March 19 in Canvas | |||
4. Rethinking biodiversity and policy |
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| 30 | T | Constraints on biodiversity conservation policies | The Last Two Northern White Rhinos on Earth (NYTimes) | ||
Apr |
1 | R | Reframing the idea of biodiversity | The Ultimate Pursuit in Hunting Sheep (NYTimes) | |
| 6 | T | Cultural narratives about megafauna conservation policy | Trophy (video) | ||
| 8 | R | Island and mosaic approaches to biodiversity policy | |||
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| 15 | R | In-class unit assessment group preparation | |||
| 19 | M | Assessment 4 video due Monday April 19 in Canvas | |||
5. A good versus a bad Anthropocene |
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| 20 | T | Environmentalist or ecomodernist policies |
The Problem With Putting a Price on the End of the World (NYTimes) | ||
| 22 | R | Algorithmic Earth | Wall Street Eyes Billions in the Colorado's Water (NYTimes) | ||
| 27 | T | Financializing nature | Animal Planet (NYTimes) | ||
| 29 | R | Engineering the biosphere | |||
| May | 4 | T | In-class unit assessment group preparation | ||
| 6 | R | Reading Days | |||
| 7 | F | ||||
| 13 | R | Assessment 5 video due Thursday May 13 in Canvas | |||