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Week 12

Lecture overheads from the review class on Monday

Here are some study questions


Week 11

Lecture notes on economic approach to valuing nature.

Assignment 9 &  arboretum excursion details


Week 10

Lecture notes- the economic approach to environmental decision making

Assignment 8, due on Wednesday March 21


Week 9

Lecture notes on public misconceptions about science


Assignment 7 (pertaining to Wednesday's guest lecture) Due Saturday, March 17.

Here is a pdf of Tom Nudds' lecture (as promised)


Week 8

Assignment 6 (pertaining to Monday's guest lecture) Due Wednesday, March 7.


Week 7

Lecture notes on Climate change and scientfiic conduct.

In class, I showed these two videos of David Suzuiki and George Monbiot to give a sense of how debates over climate change play out in media.

I highly recommend this series of lectures by George Marshall on the psychology of climate change (most insightful thing I've seen on this topic in a long time).

Assignment 5 - Due Wednesday, Feb 28

Week 6

Guidelines for midterm exam .

Week 5

Lecture notes on Environmental Aesthetics

Here are the videos from class: Duchamp's fountain and 'How to Make an Art'

You can also find out more about the predatory habits of jumping spiders

I also enjoy this discussion of environmental aesthetics and conservation, by Dr Harry W. Green, snake biologist.


Week 4

Assignment 4 - Due Wednesday, Feb 08

Lecture notes on Deep Ecology

Videos of Arne Naess describing Deep Ecology

Week 3

Lecture notes on Kricher and essentialism.
 
Lecture notes on Callicott and Sagoff.

Assignment 3 - for Wednesday, Jan 25th

This is an excellent documentary on the controversy surrounding wind turbines in Cape Cod. 


Weeks 1 & 2

Lecture notes on Leopold. 

Assignment 2 - for Wednesday, Jan 18th

Assignment 1 - for Wednesday Jan. 11.
 
Here are some links to relevant documentaries.

Hear about this village in the Congo that decimated its forests in a tragedy of the commons situation  (part 1, part 2, part 3).
 
This case offers  a more optimistic picture of how a user-pay system for ecosystem services might avoid such situations.