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PUAF 741 |
Course Outline |
SPRING 2006 |
| Week |
Date |
Quiz? |
Topic |
Reading |
| 1 |
1/25 |
Environment and human well-being; indices of human impact |
ES ch. 1, 4; see web |
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| 2 |
2/1 |
Quantitative tools: units, estimation, basic physics and chemistry, box models, exponential and logistic growth, IPAT, cost/benefit/risk assessment | SC 1–28, 36–44, 50–54, 111–116; ES ch. 2-3, 7-8, app. A | |
| 3 |
2/8 |
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| 4 | 2/15 |
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| 5 |
2/22 |
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| 6 |
3/1 |
Human population growth; food and resource consumption; limits to growth? |
SC 216–223; see web |
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| 7 |
3/8 |
Quiz |
Introduction to Earth systems and global biogeochemical cycles: energy, water, carbon, nitrogen, sulfur, phosphorous |
SC 28-35, 45-49, 128-149, 258-261; ES ch. 10; see web |
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8 |
3/15 |
Climate change: atmospheric and oceanic structure and circulation; climate, past climate change and its causes; anthropogenic climate change; impacts and mitigation of climate change; policy responses | SC 69–73, 89–94, 100–103, 158–192; ES ch. 11–12, 14; see web | |
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spring |
break |
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9 |
3/29 |
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10 |
4/5 |
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11 |
4/12 | Quiz | ||
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12 |
4/19 |
Ozone depletion: science and policy response |
ES ch. 13, 14; web |
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13 |
4/26 |
Acid deposition: science and policy response |
SC 95–99, 104–110, 120–123; SC 124–127; ES ch. 9, web |
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14 |
5/3 |
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15 |
5/10 |
Quiz |
Land use and ecosystem change, habitat destruction, biodiversity loss: science and policy response |
see web |
| 16 |
5/17 |
Final exam |
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