Spring 2022 ENS 202 - Environment and Sustainability II Natural Sciences and Policy Tuesday and Thursday 9:30-10:45 am 199 Business and Economics Bldg |
J. Anthony Stallins University of Kentucky - Dept of Geography Syllabus Zoom office hours: Wed and Thurs 12-2 pm (Appts can be made via Canvas) |
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1. The world viewed through sense, mind and context: where science and policy begin |
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| Jan | 11 | Tuesday - Classroom | Introduction Philosophy and science Scale |
The Lost Norse (Science) |
| 13 | Thursday - Zoom | We Cannot Live By Skepticism Alone (Nature) | ||
| 18 | Tuesday - Classroom | Who Would Kill a Monk Seal? (NYTimes) | ||
| 20 | Thursday - Zoom | Birds Aren't Real or Are They? (NY Times) | ||
| 25 | Tuesday - Zoom | |||
| 27 | Thursday - Classroom | Test 1 | ||
| Reading questions 1 due by 11:59 pm | ||||
| 31 | Monday | Video assessment and unit reflection 1 due by 11:59 pm | ||
| Feb | 2. Science and policy as co-evolutionary dynamic |
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| 1 | Tuesday - Classroom | Ecological order and disorder
Complex adaptive systems Resilience theory Adaptive management |
Can Humankind Escape the Tragedy of the Commons? (PNAS) | |
| 3 | Thursday - Zoom | Tragedy Revisited (Science) | ||
| 8 | Tuesday - Classroom | |||
| 10 | Thursday - Zoom | |||
| 15 | Tuesday - Classroom | |||
| 17 | Thursday - Classroom | Test 2 | ||
| Reading questions 2 due by 11:59 pm | ||||
| 21 | Monday | Video assessment and unit reflection 2 due by 11:59 pm | ||
| 3. Understanding prediction and human behavior for environmental policy | ||||
| 22 | Tuesday - Classroom | Cognitive biases and nudging Game theory Models and modeling |
The Cognitive Biases Tricking your Brain (Atlantic) | |
| 24 | Thursday - Classroom | Nudging Pro-Environmental Behavior (Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution) | ||
| Mar | 1 | Tuesday - Classroom | Tit for Tat (Radiolab) | |
| 3 | Thursday - Zoom | |||
| 8 | Tuesday - Classroom | |||
| 10 | Thursday - Classroom | Test 3 | ||
| Reading questions 3 due by 11:59 pm | ||||
| 11 | Friday | Unit reflection 3 due by 11:59 pm (No video assessment) | ||
4. The foundation of sustainability policies: the coexistence of life forms |
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| 22 | T - Classroom | Conservation policies and their limits The fuzzy concept of biodiversity Megafauna discourses and policy The US Endangered Species Act |
Of Bombs and Butterflies (Radiolab) | |
| 24 | R - Classroom | Angry Inuk (Video) | ||
| 29 | T - Classroom | The Ultimate Pursuit in Hunting (NYTimes) | ||
| 31 | R - Zoom | Trophy (Video) | ||
| Apr | 5 | T - Classroom | ||
| 7 | R | Test 4 | ||
| Reading questions 4 | ||||
| 11 | M | Video assessment and unit reflection 4 due by 11:59 pm | ||
5. Science and policy for the different Anthropocenes |
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| 12 | T - Classroom | Environmentalism and ecomodernism
Algorithmic Earth Financializing nature |
The Efficiency Dilemma (New Yorker) | |
| 14 | R - Classroom | Animal Planet (NYTimes) | ||
| 19 | T - Classroom | The Problem With Putting a Price on the End of the World (NYTimes) | ||
| 21 | R - Classroom | Wall Street Eyes Billions in the Colorado's Water (NYTimes) | ||
| 26 | T - Classroom | Prep day | ||
| 28 | R | Reading day - No formal class meeting | ||
| May | 3 | T | Test 5 due in Canvas by 11:59 pm (No video assessment or reflection) | |