http://web.pdx.edu/~rueterj/courses/ESM102/index.html

Course Details:

Instructor - John Rueter
Professor, Environmental Sciences and Management
email: rueterj@pdx.edu
website: http://web.pdx.edu/~rueterj/courses/ESM102
CMS: D2L - ESM 102
CRN: 41281
lecture time: Tuesday 10 to 11:20
room: LH 339

Announcements:

Quiz 2 feedback has been posted.

 

Lab Details:

The lab schedule and syllabus will be available on D2L


You are required to be in one of the lab sections.
All labs are in SB2 149
102L section 1 - Thur 9 am (CRN 41285)
102L section 2 - cancelled
102L section 3 - cancelled
102L section 4 - Tue 9 am (CRN 41284)
102L section 5 - Wed 4 pm (CRN 41282)
TAs for the lab are:

Katie Bohren
Alec Kretchun

Workshop schedules - put this on your calendar!

Syllabus, contains information about:

specifics of hybrid courses

purpose of the course
learning objectives
reading assignments
online quizzes

quizzes
grading

student resonsibilities
student
conduct code

The text is free online in a pdf format.

Multiple Perspecitves and Approaches to Complex Environmental Issuses V4.3

Please check the date of the document because I will be updating this during the term.

 

 

Assessment and quiz feedback

week 1 in-class week 1
week 2 in-class week 2
week 3 in-class week 3
week 4 in-class week 4
week 5 in-class week 5
quiz 1  
week 6 in-class week 6
week 7 in-class week7
weel 8 in-class week8
quiz 2  
week 9 in-class week9
week 10 in-class week 10

instrtuctions and hints for quiz 1
instructions and hints for quiz 2

 

 

Date
Lecture #
Lecture topics Viewer(s)

Assignments deadline

all on D2L

Jan 10 - Week 1

Introduction, course details
types of problems
multiple perspectives framework
I = P * A * T

Systems

Log on verification due by Friday at 5 PM.

Week1-online by Monday Jan 16 by midnight.

Jan 17 - Week 2

Demographic transition
Systems Viewer
Malthus vs. Boserup
Environment and poverty
Environment and health

Systems

Week2-online due by

Jan 24 - Week 3

Human energy use and sources: world vs. USA
Fossil fuel, CO2, and climate change
Net Energy

Risk & Uncertainty

Week3-online due by Monday Feb 6 - but do it as soon as you can (this was my error)

 

Jan 31 - Week 4 Energy: saving energy through efficiency
Energy: embedded vs. operating
Renewable energy
Accounting

Week4-online due by Monday Feb 6 at midnight

on-line quiz 1 from Wednesday Feb 8 to Thur Feb 9 at midnight - instructions
Feb 07 - Week 5

Water: resources
Water: Pollution

Risk & Uncertainty

Week5-online due by Monday Feb 13 at midnight

Feb 14 - Week 6 Water: critical limitations
-------- human impacts
-------- scale effective approaches
Accounting

Week6-online due by Monday Feb 20 at midnight.

Feb 21 - Week 7 Land use - proportions
Agriculture impact
Values and World Views
Values and Worldviews

Week7-online due by Monday Feb 27 at midnight.

Easy one!

Feb 28 - Week 8

Innovation in agriculture
Working with world views

  Week8-online
on-line quiz 2 from Wed Mar 7 to Mar 8 at midnight
Mar 06 - Week 9

Urbanization and Sprawl
Innovation

 

Multiple Perspective Framework
Innovation
Week9-online

Mar 13 - Week 10

 

Solving Environmental Problems
small scale approaches
Integrative reveiw

course evaluations

Entrepreneurship Week10-online
easy review!
FINAL QUIZ - Tue Mar 20 at 12:01 AM to Wed Mar 21 at midnight (during finals week)