Home page for ES 703: Environmental (Natural) Resource Sustainability
Meeting times: Jeremy's Assignment Diego's Assignment
MW: 10:30 - 12:15 Christina's Assignment Sumantra's Assignment
Location: Diggs 240 Chip's Assignment Seth's Assignment
First meeting (Jan 5): Organizational, assignment, possible topics, course outline (more possible topics)
Second meeting (Jan 7): Introduction: Defining the terms, outlining the issues (slides from the lecture: ES703Lec1_070109.ppt)
Third meeting (Jan 12): The tragedy of the commons
Fourth meeting (Jan 14): discussing assignments
Fifth meeting (Jan 21 - mon Jan 19 is a holiday): the role of the economy in sustainability (slides from the lecture)
Sixth meeting (Jan 26): Steady state economy
Seventh meeting (Feb 2): Sustainable development (slides from the lecture)
Eight meeting (Feb 4): Climate change (Chip's presentation)
Ninth meeting (Feb 9): Groundwater pollution (Christina) (Bekins 2001.pdf)(Groundwater Pollution.pptx)
Tenth meeting (Feb 11): Sustainability of water - evapotranspiration (Sumantra)
Eleventh meeting (Feb 16): Agriculture (Diego)(the future of foods)(Tilman et al. 2002)(Sus agriculture.ppt)
Twelfth meeting (Feb 18): Agriculture and grazing
Thirteenth meeting (Feb 23): Sustainability and biodiversity (Folke_etal_2004) (Jeremy) (Presentation slides)
Fourteenth meeting (Feb 25): Policy guest lecture by Dr. Benjamin Cashore (Yale University) (Presentation slides)
Fifteenth meeting (Mar 2): Sustainability at Wright State (guest lecture by Dr. Hunt Brown) (Presentation slides)
Sixteenth meeting (Mar 4): Energy (Seth) (Presentation Slides)(Chisti 2007)
Seventeenth meeting (Mar 9): Policy and management
Eighteenth meeting (Mar 11): Conclusion (Readings: Natural Capitalism and Daly - A Steady-State Economy)
Final project due: Mar 13
Comments (3)
Jeremy Heath said
at 5:00 pm on Jan 17, 2009
Volker, can you add a folder within ES-703 for me to put supporting files in? I tried to do this myself, but the function appears disabled.
Volker Bahn said
at 10:54 pm on Jan 17, 2009
I added a folder for you but I don't seem to be able to make it a sub-folder of the ES703 folder.
Sumantra Chatterjee said
at 8:46 pm on Feb 10, 2009
I couldn't upload this link anywhere in wiki...so pasting it here
http://geochange.er.usgs.gov/sw/changes/natural/et/
It is no different than the one Dr. Bahn sent everyone by email
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