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Environmental Science II

There are two sections of this course. One is fully on-line and the other is a hybrid of on-line plus face-to-face lectures. The lecture notes below are the same for both sections.

You must use D2L to see the assignments for your section and you must be enrolled in a laboratory.

Please see the orientation module for your section for the syllabus and other important details.

 
Lecture
notes 		Feedback Information Analysis or
Problem Solving Approaches		 Environmental
Example
week 1 week1-crux Problem types Technology implementation
week 2 week2-crux Stock and Flow Systems Population growth and the "Demographic Transition"
week 3 week3-crux Scale: size and rates Energy use at national, regional and home levels
week 4 week4-crux Optimization and efficiency Cooking stoves
week 5 week5-crux Accounting Water use and embedded water
week 6 week6-crux Accounting Water projects and indexes
week 7 week7-crux Integrative solutions Local agriculture: energy, water, and land
week 8 week8-crux Worldviews, Scenarios Population growth, global climate change
Lake restoration and water resources
week 9   Multi-criteria negotiations, environmental entrepreneurism Coastal development, water pumping and purification
week 10   Scientifice evaluation review and evaluate the underlying models used in the above examples